Millennium director

"Maeno-kun, is this the movie you're talking about?"

Airi Horie pointed at the most eye-catching poster in the cinema.

On the poster, five handsome men and beautiful women dressed in very technical style gathered in the center. Behind them, there were five virtual characters standing in the air with half of their faces exposed. And behind them, there were all kinds of strange and beautiful figures. A group of different people are charging towards the sight.

Needless to say, just looking at this poster is pretty cool.

Especially if you look carefully, you can see many familiar faces among the thousands of troops on the background board.

For example, there is a boy with a yellow spiky head, a forehead protector, and a face like a tanuki in Ninja Run.

Another example is Fei Gao, who flies at high speed in bird form.

As a Japanese, even a girl who doesn't like to read hot-blooded comics, Airi Horie is familiar with many familiar images on the posters.

"It's this movie, "Naruto (Ready Player One)"!"

Maeno Yasutoshi nodded his head excitedly and said seriously to his girlfriend: "This is a new movie shot by my favorite director."

"Ai Li-chan, you know, I like science fiction the most. Whether it's science fiction novels, science fiction movies or science fiction games, I love them all!"

"This movie is a science fiction movie. It tells the story of people being immersed in a virtual game called "Oasis" in 2045 when virtual technology is very advanced. The 18-year-old Wade and his friends made many breakthroughs level, get the easter egg hidden in the game by the founder of the game, and become the heir to the oasis story.”

"This movie is adapted from an American novel, but the director made a very Asian adaptation and added a lot of Asian cultural elements, which is the Naruto, Gundam and others you see on the poster."

"Oh my gosh, such a virtual two-dimensional world with Naruto, Sasuke, Gundam, and Luffy existing is so attractive!"

“It satisfies my sci-fi hobby and my animation hobby. It’s perfect!”

Yes, Maeno Yasutoshi is not only a science fiction fan, he is also a passionate comic book lover.

In other words, which Japanese didn't love reading the hot-blooded shounen comics of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" when they were teenagers?

Ever since, for Maeno Yasutoshi, "Ready Player One", released on July 22, is a movie that perfectly satisfies his preferences.

He even brought his girlfriend with him, intending to drag her into the trap with him.

This movie has been released in China for a week. There are always a group of Wu Yuan fans in Japan who will pay attention to Wu Yuan's movies.

Naturally, the online reviews, word-of-mouth, and box office results of "Ready Player One" after its release in China were largely translated into Japanese and moved back to the Japanese Internet.

Most Japanese movie fans who are even remotely interested in Wu Yuan's movies already know about this movie.

Chinese audiences like it very much. The movie uses a lot of Japanese comic characters and also contains many Easter eggs about Japanese animation.

Even if they don’t want to be spoiled, Japanese netizens know more or less about the movie.

Well, then I looked forward to it even more.

Finally, after a week of anticipation, this movie has finally been released in Japan. It’s a must-see!

"Airi-chan, let's get in quickly. The movie starts in ten minutes." Holding the movie ticket, Maeno Yasutoshi continued to talk to his girlfriend excitedly: "I heard that Sakura will appear in the movie."

"Don't you like Sakura the most? The key to dark power is hidden. Show your true power in front of me~"

"I heard that there are also Sakura's Easter eggs in the movie, and Sakura's magic wand appears."

"There's also a moon prism!"

Of course Wu Yuan will not just bury some Easter eggs belonging to boys in the movie.

The original "Ready Player One" buries a lot of elements that appeared in movies and TV series that European and American boys and girls grew up watching, while Wu Yuan's version of "Ready Player One" buries a lot of elements that Asian boys and girls grew up watching. Elements of some classic anime, movies, and TV series that I have watched in college.

Things like the magic wand from "Card Captor Sakura" and the magic wand from "Sailor Moon" have also appeared in movies.

Whether you are a girl or a boy, you will find some surprises in your memories when watching this movie.

This concept is directly copied from Spielberg's concept when creating "Ready Player One".

Yes, in fact, there are no such Easter eggs in the novel "Ready Player One", and it is impossible to write these picture Easter eggs using the text of the novel.

The movie has many adaptations from the book.

Although the entire framework has not changed, the structural details and character settings have been carefully adjusted. The novel has a weak sense of science fiction and is more like a game or e-sports theme, while the movie has become a real science fiction film.

There will be more than a hundred Easter eggs in the original movie of "Ready Player One", and it is even said to be a movie made with Easter eggs. This is because when Spielberg made this movie, he himself was an American version of the 1980s and 1990s. All popular elements, or his youth, are all stuffed into the movie.

There are classic cars that appear in his favorite movies, characters from classic Hollywood movies, a tribute to "The Shining", and a lot of elements from popular games.

Of course, many elements from outstanding games and movies of the 21st century also appear in the movie, such as the characters in "Overwatch."

Spielberg just told the audience that if there is such a virtual world that includes all the popular culture you like, it will surely take up the banner of rebuilding meaning, save you, the contemporary human beings who have nothing to do but entertainment, retreat from the desert of nothingness in reality, and flee desperately to the cool oasis in the VR glasses.

Wu Yuan retained the concept of this movie, but changed all the European and American popular culture in the movie into Asian popular culture. In Asian popular culture, Japanese comics are definitely a strong and colorful stroke, and even the childhood of several generations of people in China, Japan and South Korea. It is really unavoidable.

So this Wu Yuan version of "Ready Player One" is actually very appetizing to Japanese audiences, at least it will give them a kind of memory killing that also pays tribute to their childhood.

Maeno Yasutomo and his girlfriend are just a tiny couple among the many Japanese audiences who walked into the cinema to watch "Ready Player One" on July 22.

In fact, on the day when "Ready Player One" was released in Japan, the screenings of "Ready Player One" in hundreds of cinemas across Japan were all full.

A large number of fans of the second dimension, animation, and movies flocked to the cinema to watch this special movie.

Its momentum is close to the grand occasion when "Your Name" was released that year! (End of this chapter)