The movie "Hot and Hot", directed and starring Jia Ling, leads this year's Spring Festival with an absolutely strong momentum. As of 12 noon on February 15, "Hot and Hot" was released for 5 days and won 2.1 billion box office. 
Douban score from 78** to 80, the box office reputation is soaring, and it quickly aroused strong attention from Japanese media reports and Japanese netizens. 
Japanese netizens knelt down and begged:I hope that "Hot and Hot" will be released in Japan as soon as possible! The reason why "Hot and Hot" has attracted the attention of Japanese people is not only because this film is adapted from the famous Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love", but also because of the super high box office of this film. "The Chinese remake of "100 Yuan Love" received a box office of over 20 billion yen in just 3 days after its release!? ”
I didn't expect the Chinese remake of "100 Yuan Love" to be so popular in China! ”
I'm interested in the Chinese remake of "100 Yuan Love". Actually, I like Chinese movies a lot, and I don't know if they will be released in Japan. ”
Many Japanese netizens are also like us, and when they saw the reborn Jia Ling, they couldn't help but exclaim: In order to shoot this film, Jia Ling first gained 40 pounds, and then lost 100 pounds in just one year! 
Is this really Jia Ling herself??? 
Hot and Hot is a movie released on Chinese New Year's Eve (actually on the first day of the new year), and I really like Jia Ling, the female director and actress. This movie is a remake of the Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love", in order to shoot, Jia Ling lost 50 kilograms. I really want to see this movie in the cinema, and it would be nice if it could be introduced to Japan. ”
Jia Ling lost 50 kilograms in order to shoot "Hot and Hot". The film is based on "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando, and it seems to be doing very well at the box office in China. "Hello, Li Huanying" was the first Chinese movie I watched, so I had to watch it. ”
In addition, in addition to expressing admiration, some Japanese netizens expressed concern for Jia Ling's body. Jia Ling lost 50 kilograms in order to shoot this movie, and deeply felt her sense of belief as an actor. But I hope she pays more attention to her health. ”
Anyone who has watched "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando, and then watches Jia Ling's version of "Hot and Hot", will feel a sense of familiarity.
"Hot and Hot" has many similarities with "100 Yuan Love" whether it is the storyboard, the heroine's character arc, or the heroine's expression and posture. The overall plot of the two is also roughly the same: the ugly and poor waste wood heroine is hammered by life in turn, and she is at a low point and gradually finds the redemption of life through boxing.
Redemption is an important theme in both films. But in fact, just as Jia Ling is not Ando Sakura, "Hot and Hot" is not the Chinese version of "100 Yuan Love". Because "100 Yuan Love" is an inspirational anti-chicken soup, its core is mourning, the kind that mourns to the point of having no friends.
In 2014, the small-budget movie "100 Yuan Love" was released, and then the film became a dark horse at major film festivals that year, not only was selected as the "Top Ten Films of the Year" by the Japanese Shunbao, but the 28-year-old heroine Ando Sakura was also promoted to the queen of the film and became famous in the international film industry.
As Sakura Ando said, the "Kazuko Saito" she plays is like a monster with an uncontrollable body, and her whole body exudes an unpleasant body odor; It's like an inconspicuous hundred-dollar coin that rolls to the ground in the night. Kazuko Saito, 32, is a "three-no-woman": unemployed, social, and dreamless. She lives a fairly regular life: eating, sleeping, tickling, playing games. She has a fat back and calluses on her toes.
The audience can smell the mourning and body odor on the body of this decadent housegirl who squats at home all day long through the screen.
A son's eyes are sloppy, and his movements are dull and scattered. She was always hunched over and numb to it all. Life is like mud. Because her mother runs a bento shop, she has nothing to do. The first turning point in her life was when her sister divorced and took her son home to live. The two sisters had a violent conflict, and after a fight between a son and his sister, they decided to leave home in a fit of rage. Her mother gave her some money so that she could start a new life.
After being abandoned by his family, a son faced the challenge of survival for the first time in his life. In order to survive, she came to work at a 100-yen convenience store. The colleague is a very obscene divorced middle-aged man who sexually harasses a son verbally and deedly all day long. Due to her long-term disconnection from society, Kazuko felt uncomfortable, but she did not realize that it was sexual harassment. Therefore, she is always forbearing, but her colleagues think that she "is enjoying if she does not refuse"....
During this time, Kazuko likes to pass by the boxing gym every day to peek at a man to practice boxing. This man's name is Kano, and he often goes to the convenience store where Kazuko works to buy bananas, and Kano soon takes the initiative to ask Kazuko to visit the zoo. In order to date, Kazuko dressed up carefully, but was despised by Kano: The reason why I asked you out is just that I don't think you will refuse.
Due to the long-term lack of social interaction, Kazuko feels numb to her rejection. As a result, she later took her colleagues with her to watch Kano's retired boxing match. Kazuko watched the two of them fighting on the stage the whole time, completely forgetting that the colleague next to him was sexually harassing him. This is the first time that Kazuko has intuitively felt the charm of boxing, especially after the end of the previous desperate fight boxers patted their shoulders and encouraged each other, which made Kazuko fascinated by boxing ever since. That night, a son's life fell to the bottom again. A colleague ** her, she shouted "it hurts", and then quietly called the police. Later, she and Kano lived together, but found that they did not have the tacit understanding that a couple should have with each other in all aspects. Later, Kano went to sell tofu and cheated on the tofu girl, and she could only accept this reality silently: the reason why the other party was willing to be with her was only because she was more wasteful than the other party, which made the other party feel a little better in life. Kazuko's life is like this: every time she tries to stand up slightly and look at the scenery in the distance, life will beat her up and knock her to the ground. But this time Ichiko couldn't stand it anymore, she decided to straighten up and punch life to give her a good blow, even if it was a loss of life, she wanted to win once.
In the case of not being favored by the people around him, Kazuko has made rapid progress in boxing. She trained day and night in boxing and finally became a combative boxer. At the same time, she was reborn, her back was straight, and her fat became real muscles.
After just a few months of practice, she was able to compete. At this time, her eyes are like torches and her goals are clear.
On the night of the game, her family, who had not seen her for a long time, and Kano were all in the audience to watch her game. Her opponent is a veteran boxer. From the start, Kazuko attacked her opponent bravely, but the disparity in strength was huge, just like you can never beat life, and in the end she was beaten by her opponent, even though she tried to fight back, but in the end she collapsed to the ground and failed. This is extremely different from the usual hot-blooded inspirational films, the protagonist has no halo, she will only be beaten by life again and again. The more you resist, the worse you will be beaten by life.
Although she was defeated, even if in the end, Yizi still lost life and lost the game, but she won herself. After the game, she cried and shouted"It hurts! I really want to win once! ”This is also the first time in her 32 years of life that she has clearly stated her aspirations and desires in life. Compared to the previous one, who was silent and numb to everything, when she threw the first punch, she had already won. Even though she couldn't beat life, she conquered herself, destroyed inertia, numbness, and decadence. In the process, she began to take on the responsibilities of the family and began to care for her family and the people around her.
In fact, when she stood out from 700 auditions, Sakura Ando took great pains to present the stark contrast between "otaku" and "boxer". The entire shooting cycle was only two weeks, which meant that Sakura Ando had to quickly gain 10 pounds and then quickly lose weight and gain muscle in a short period of two weeks. Before filming, on the basis of learning boxing at the age of 12, she deliberately received three months of professional boxing training. The core of "100 Yuan Love" is mourning. Life is an invincible opponent, no matter how hard you try, you still can't escape the fate of being hammered by life. But this does not prevent us from having a hearty Jedi counterattack, even if we end up being beaten by life, our nose and face are swollen.
This kind of Japanese-style mourning core is destined to be unaccustomed in China, especially in Chinese New Year movies. Therefore, Jia Ling used a method that is almost "self-sacrifice" to carry out a localized adaptation, adapting this Japanese-style story into a female hot-blooded inspirational drama with Chinese characteristics. If it is said that "100 Yuan Love" is a woman who ushers in redemption in coping with the invincible mourning of life; Then "Hot and Hot" isIn the transformation of valuing oneself and regaining one's own dominance, people usher in redemption
In fact, "Hot and Hot" is more like an autobiographical film based on Jia Ling. For a long time, Jia Ling, as a comedian, is like the heroine "Le Ying" in the film, she is a people-pleasing personality: there are two apples, one large and one small, which must be eaten by others. She is everyone's pistachio, laughing at herself all day long, pretending to be crazy and stupid, just to make the audience laugh.
And now, she has decided not to please the audience with her cuteness. For a film, at 200 pounds, she chose to overcome the threshold of female congenital strength, and through surprising super training intensity, she even developed a body of muscles.
In the fiercely competitive Spring Festival movies, in a commercial film where men have the right to speak, Jia Ling stands out from the encirclement, relying on telling the passionate and inspirational story of an ordinary girl with her heart: this girl is neither beautiful, nor does she have any golden fingers, nor is she saved by the boss. All she had was herself, and the fist that could be fearlessly swung forward.
In the name of Le Ying, she revealed the plight of countless ordinary women: in life, Le Ying suppressed too many setbacks, and even tried to commit suicide. For her own sake, she wanted to win once. This time she decided to go into the gym for herself. Undergo a metamorphosis from body to mind, cut off all toxic interpersonal relationships, have the courage to express yourself, and decide to live only for yourself from now on.
Once upon a time, most of the female characters on the screen were matched to male characters. In order to highlight the heroic temperament of male characters, male directors let all kinds of female characters who fit their imagination become tools at the mercy of them. Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot" is a direct punch to this creative ecology: the female character can be herself, have her own emotions, and when she is unhappy, she can swing her fist at life without having to consider the feelings of others. The biggest difference between "Hot and Hot" and "100 Yuan Love" is that in addition to the heroine, other female characters are still outstanding.
Whether it is a girlfriend or a younger sister, they are not "good women" in the traditional sense, this kind of traditional good wife and mother who has no moral baggage, has not burned herself for the family, does not sacrifice herself for others, and lives a miserable life. There are only "bad women", those evil women who do everything for their own interests, and their images are much more three-dimensional and vivid. "Hot and Hot" is just like the title of the film, the core is to love yourself desperately. Face yourself, reclaim your own subjectivity, and take control of your life. Loving what you love, loving what you choose, and feeling happy and happy because of it, is life.