Deep in a street in Akasaka, Tokyo, there is a restaurant.

You saw that simple shopping tips, walked down the stairs and opened the door with a "wow".

"Welcome ..."

Diners chat and joke while eating. The smell of food enters your nose.

The owner's name is Jade Valley. But old customers used to call this shop "Mr. Xiong's restaurant". The owner was a great craftsman. Cooking will immediately arouse your appetite.

The boss is not only a good artist, but also a very talkative person. From astronomical geography to trivial matters of life.

However, there is often a guy who can talk nonsense in the shop. This man is Mr Kitano Takeshi, a diner.

Kitano Takeshi has a rich life experience, has made dozens of films, and has been a popular artist in the Japanese talent circle for decades.

Man is a platform comedy, a bit like China's cross talk. Akira Kurosawa, the greatest Japanese director, wrote a letter to Kitano Takeshi before his death, which contained the following sentence: "The future of Japanese films depends on you". Therefore, Mr. Kitano Takeshi is the best at telling jokes among filmmakers. This is the combination of Kurosawa and Degang Guo.

When Mr. Kitano Takeshi talks about Kan Kan, he often says some amazing things. However, after listening to it, others still can't help patting their thighs and saying, "It seems very reasonable."

The more we talk about these topics, the richer we will be. There are many wild ideas about life and death, movies and life. Tidy up these interesting chats, and then there is Kitano Takeshi's bistro.

Tell painful things as jokes.

About ten years ago, a serious car accident happened in Kitano Takeshi. Although he recovered a life, it caused half of his face to collapse completely.

The cause of the car accident is this:

A magazine took photos of Kitano Takeshi in and out of romantic places and published them in Photography Weekly. In a fit of pique, Kitano Takeshi bought a motorcycle. I think: riding a motorcycle is not so easy to be photographed.

Maybe I was drunk that day and wanted to go somewhere. I don't know how this happened. Kitano Takeshi only remembers riding a motorcycle, but he doesn't remember the rest.

When I regained consciousness, I found myself lying in a hospital bed, dripping with intravenous drip, and my body was full of tubes.

It's a miracle that Kitano Takeshi survived. At that time, the doctor thought he was hopeless. Half his face was smashed. In order to restore his face, Kitano Takeshi's head was filled with titanium alloy.

Metal bars went through his left face from his right face, and the doctor wanted to pull them out. Kitano Takeshi clearly remembers it. He felt these sticks moving out bit by bit under his nose. At the same time, it will make a crunching sound. The sound was like a metal rod, which brought out his brains. At this time, Kitano Takeshi said: "I fully understand the mood of Guandong Cook now." The doctor scolded, "Don't be silly!"

Seeing this paragraph, although I don't think it should be, it is really funny. What is the mood of Guandong cooking? Being poked in the head with a sign. Humans are really cruel.

However, as a versatile artist, it is not a loss to make such a bad thing so funny.

But it's not just fun. People will probably have two moments of epiphany. For the first time, I found that life is so absurd and people are so fragile. I may die completely unconscious because of a photo in a gossip magazine. Life is full of such accidental and absurd things.

The second moment of epiphany was that I found that I could tell the absurd things in my life as jokes.

No matter how painful it is, it will be a joke ten years later.

Of course, the premise is still alive.

It's great to tell painful things as jokes.

Yes, I am a very afraid of death.

Recalling his school days, Kitano Takeshi said that he was particularly afraid of death.

From high school to college, he thinks about the problem of "death" almost every day. During that time, he felt that death was a particularly horrible thing. Nothing can overcome the fear of death.

I have heard psychologists say that people's special fear of death probably has two stages. One was about eight or nine years old when a child just realized that he was dying.

The other stage is 18 and 19 years old. People at that time were particularly afraid of death.

I don't know about others, but this statement is particularly effective for me. One afternoon when I was eight or nine years old, I was walking home from school and suddenly realized that everyone would die, and one day I would disappear from this world. I went home crying. Before going to bed that night, I said to myself, maybe I will die tomorrow.

When I was eighteen or nineteen, I also felt that death was a particularly horrible thing. But I haven't thought about why very carefully. Just live in a daze.

When I saw Kitano Takeshi say that he was also a person who was afraid of death when he was a student, I remembered these things.

But Kitano Takeshi said it very well. He said:

"What I was afraid of at that time may not be death itself, but the inability to live according to my own ideals. What I am afraid of is the dull and boring life. "

How nice. I recall those days when I was a student, and I was particularly afraid of death. In fact, what accompanies me is the anxiety of "I don't know how to spend my life".

What people are really afraid of is this feeling of "fearing to live in vain once", I think.

Because of this, Kitano Takeshi, who felt that school was boring, dropped out of college to fool around in Asakusa. At first, I pressed the elevator for others in an performing arts company. Later, I became a versatile artist.

I don't want to live casually for fear of death. Because I don't want to waste this short life, I'm afraid of death.

Therefore, it is good to be afraid of death.

If there was no fear of death in adolescence, Kitano Takeshi would not have made the decision to drop out of school. Then maybe there will be more well-behaved office workers and fewer artists, Kitano Takeshi.

People who complain about their origins are just children.

Anyone who knows Kitano Takeshi knows that his childhood was unhappy.

Kitano Takeshi was born in a poor family in the suburb of Tokyo. My father is a craftsman, a typical craftsman in Xiamachi District. Go out to paint or paint every morning and come back drunk at night.

As soon as his father came home, little Kitano Takeshi quickly got into the quilt and hid. Then I heard something in the living room, and then my father punched and kicked my mother.

It is such a person who runs wild and domestic violence through alcohol. But once sober, it becomes weak. Then it was his mother's turn to attack him with words. This happens every day.

Kitano Takeshi recalled that he grew up without his father.

Later, my father became seriously ill and was paralyzed in bed until his death. There has never been real communication between father and son.

Kitano Takeshi had hoped for a decent father. Don't worry every day. I wonder what my father will do today.

But no one can change a person. A lot of things have long been doomed.

Finally, at the age of 50, Kitano Takeshi felt that he understood his father somewhat. Born in an era of poverty and war, he couldn't even write his own name well. Only in inferior wine can I get a little cheap happiness. I have lived my whole life without dignity.

"Whether a person grows up depends on his attitude towards his parents. When you face your parents and feel that they are' pitiful' and' really not easy', it is the first step towards maturity. At this age, a person who still talks about' I can't forgive my father' is at best a child. "

Kitano Takeshi said so.

Later, Kitano Takeshi filmed "Kijiro's Summer", which is a story about a little boy growing up without his parents' care.

The film was shot a few years after the car accident, so the gangster Kitano Takeshi played in it had half his face collapsed.

Kitano Takeshi's father, his name is Kikujiro.

So, you have to find the answer yourself.

Because my father was absent when I was growing up, my mother became the core of the family. She is a very strong mother, holding her child firmly in her hand and planning everything.

Kitano Takeshi once said that he had been trying to get rid of his mother's control all his life.

The life arranged by his mother is like this: he will enter a good university and study science and engineering. After graduation, he will find a job in a big company and live a stable life.

However, because Kitano Takeshi was "too afraid of death" when he was a student, he found it boring to live like this all his life, so he dropped out of school in senior three.

This is Kitano Takeshi's greatest resistance to his mother in his life. The relationship between mother and child is very tense.

In the movie Summer of Kikujiro, the punk played by Kitano Takeshi went to a nursing home, took a look at his mother in a wheelchair, and then left. Presumably this is his guilt when he thinks of his mother.

But if you live your life again, you will still make such a decision. Although his mother arranged everything, he knew that this was not the life he wanted.

After all, Kitano Takeshi is a person who wants to find the answer by himself.

The audience thinks his films are very creative, and what he says always points out the unexpected side of others. This is entirely because Kitano Takeshi has his own view of the world.

If you face life honestly, you will find that many things are not what others say.

Take "equality" for example. Kitano Takeshi thinks that "everyone is equal" is a complete lie.

In his middle school days, there was a private high school for rich children nearby. The high school students there have smart brains and are very popular with girls. Even the school uniform is so beautiful. On Kitano Takeshi's side, everyone is poor and stupid, depressed, and even can't beat others in baseball. Rich children can satisfy everything they want, while children from poor families will only hear their parents say "our family is poor and can't afford that thing" or "you are so stupid, stop dreaming" and so on.

Regarding "freedom", Kitano Takeshi said, if freedom is so beautiful, why is football popular?

People love freedom, which is an illusion. On the surface, in our time, it seems that we can do whatever we want. But then, people don't know what they want to do. So I want to find a leader, no matter who he is, to tell you how to live.

The popularity of football shows that what people really need in their hearts is actually rules. Humans like to make rules and then live by them. Otherwise, people will panic and not know what to do. So we created society, and then it was firmly controlled by society.

In the book Kitano Takeshi's Bistro, there are many strange remarks like this.

At first glance, it sounds a bit harsh, but when you think about it, it still makes sense.

Why is chicken soup so popular now? That's because we want ready-made answers so badly. We want someone to tell us how to live and then do it. This is a rented life.

You have to find your own "life answer".

I think this is what Kitano Takeshi wants to say most.

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