Who created the world of God?

2019-07-20
John UM

“I want to give up my pen with all the good things in the world.” – Jin Min, 2010.

On August 24th, 2010, Japanese animation master Jin Min left a suicide note of more than 4,000 words, a list of 178 favorite movies, and an animated feature film in preparation. Dream Machine, suddenly passed away. So suddenly, fans around the world mourn. Nowadays, the 10th anniversary of the death of Director Min, the legacy of Dream Machine may only be able to “see each other in a dream.”

“I really want to find someone in the world for help, but the place where he stays is really far away from us. All the staff want to think about the parts that have been completed before, even if it takes a long time, It must also be completed… This is the agreement we made before he died.” – Producer Maruyama Masao, 2011.

Fortunately, Jin Min is a creator, in addition to the well-known animated director, a cartoonist. The final work of the director’s comic career, “Works” (OPUS), was finally re-visited by the efforts of all parties. It was first published in the form of a single book, and it was included in the book that it was rejected during the lifetime. The “final words” ending. Today, in the summer, “Works” (OPUS) has finally been introduced to the Chinese world for the first time, and it is possible to meet with readers and fans who love Jin Min!

Even more exciting is that it is confirmed that the “Work” (OPUS) will be adapted into an animated film. The musicians and gold partners of today’s life-long love, Ping Zejin have already written the theme song in advance

“The legacy program is dancing in the wind and death is just a false life.
……
Come on, breathe quickly.
Come on, wake up.
Come on, to Genesis.
……
God’s, OPUS OPUS
Yours, OPUS.” – Musician Hirasawa, “OPUS”, 2018.

Looking back at Jin Min’s creative career, “Works” (OPUS) is a turning point in meaning

In 1963, Jin Min was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. As his father moved and moved, he gradually fell in love with comics and animation. In 1982, Jin Min was admitted to the Musashino Art University. During his time at the school, he also worked as an assistant to the famous animation director and cartoonist Keyou

The debut of Jin Min’s comic career is the “虏-TORIKO-” which won the “Chiba Chimi Award and Outstanding Newcomer Award”, which was in 1984, he was 21 years old. The story has the dystopian temperament and staggered style of George Orwell’s “1984”, Stanley Kubrick’s “Wind Clock” and Terry Gilliam’s “Thinking of Heaven”

In 1990, Jin Min began to serialize the first chapter of the comic book “The Return of the Sea”. In the process, he was admitted to hospital for a month because of hepatitis. He began to realize that the work of comics is not suitable for himself, because he does not like the work status of a person’s lonely creation. Although self-proclaimed “hardships and sorrows”, in the era of bubble economy, the comics career has enabled Jin Min to start to rely on artistic talents to gain a foothold, including the money to rent many DVDs to watch the film all night, affecting the future creation..

“When you serialize comics, you can hardly see other people. Life is just the sun, the moon turns around the window, even the days of the week don’t know, plus the spirit is unstable, I feel the growing beard has already been A creature survives in the world.” – Jin Min, “My Way to Dream”.

In 1995, Jin Min was 32 years old. Finally, relying on the income of comics, he moved to a new six-fold (about 10 square meters) new home with improved comfort. Here, after 200 days and nights beyond the limit, Jin Min drew the last long-running comic book – “OPUS” – a “manga on comics”

Unexpectedly, after serializing 19 words, the magazine suddenly collapsed and the “Works” (OPUS) suffered a sigh of relief. Even so, Jin Min did not easily abandon it. In the limited space reserved before the suspension of publication, he skillfully designed the ending of God that can “recognize itself” and “recognize the original setting”, and draw with a genius of creativity. Semi-finished line draft. Unexpectedly, it was rejected by the magazine and it was not published

Since then, Jin Min has completely transformed and started the career of animation director, and has invested in the production of the debut “The House of the House”

1997-2006, from “Unproductive House”, “Millennium Girl” to “Tokyo Godfather” and “Red Pepper”, an average of two or three years, Jin Min has successively created a masterpiece of heavyweight animation that affects the world of film. Into the Venice Film Festival main competition unit, nominated Oscar for best animated feature film, nominated animation Anne Award for Best Director & Best Screenplay, became a world-renowned master after Miyazaki Hayao, Dayou Keyang, and Oshii Shou. He said: “In the past ten years, my life density has been several times that of others.”

“I think that the value of art does not always exist in the works, but only through the process of reading, watching and so on. The so-called touch is also generated between the work and the author/viewer. It is the real value of the work.” – Jin Min.

Who is it that created the world of God?

OPUS is the physical container for the virtual soul of Director Min

◎ Animation master Jin Min, the masterpiece of comics career, the first Chinese language introduction!

今敏, the most famous Japanese animation master after Hayao Miyazaki, Otsuka Kayo, and Oshii Shou, an animated director who has a place in the history of film, has a strong author color and pioneering spirit

Only 46 years old, a short life, leaving only four animated films, but they have won numerous awards:

“The House of the House” (1997), invited to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, won the best film of the Asian Fantasy Film Festival;
“Millennium Girl” (2001), ranked as one of the world’s top 50 animated masterpieces, nominated Oscar for best animated feature film, nominated for the best director of the Anne Award, the best screenwriter, and Japan with “Spirited Away” Culture Department Media Arts Festival Animation Awards…
“Tokyo Godfather” (2003), won the best animated film award for daily film selection;
“Red Pepper” (2006), adapted from the literary master Tujing Kanglong’s eponymous science fiction “The Pirates of the Detective”, was selected as the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival…

In August 2010, Jin Min died prematurely, and the world’s mainstream media mourned: “Jin Min has won high praise with a small animation. He is a great filmmaker in Japan and is also keen in the world. One of the artists who explored the spirit of spirits.” – Time Magazine.

“After the death of Jin Min, we feel that the future of Japanese animation is gone.” – Film magazine “CUT”.

◎ The long story is revisited for the first time, and the first time as a single-line book to commemorate the publication, the complete collection of the god endings that were refused to be published during the lifetime!

“Works” (OPUS) was originally serialized in 1995-1996. Later, due to the collapse of the magazine, it was not able to gather for the publication of this book before the death of Min. After the death of Jin Min in 2010, in order to commemorate the memorial, the manuscripts were reorganized from the pile of papers, and the “phantom-like final words” that had been rejected but the publications were rejected, so they were completely included in the original state. The volume of the book was published in a single form to fulfill the wishes of Jin Min

◎ You can imagine the feast of the current Min style, a post-comic career, a milestone, and the transformation of the animation director’s work!

Some of the Min comics are animated film comics, some are invited to participate in the planning, some are short lengths, and “Works” (OPUS) is a more complete sense of today’s “self-directed” full-hearted The long work of the heart!

In the anthology “My Way to Dream”, Jin Min evaluates “Works” (OPUS): “In painting, this is the most unified style of my style.”

Carry out the core theme of Jin Min’s life creation – the spiritual world of contemporary people, the intertwining of dreams, reality and subconsciousness, identity, post-modern anxiety, the relationship between self, self and super-ego, multiple gaze.The topics discussed in

“Works” (OPUS) have deeply influenced the next stage of the animation of Mai Min, “The Unemployed House”, and the follow-up “Millennium Girl”, “Tokyo Godfather” and “Red Pepper”

◎ Summary of personal comics career, characters and scene settings have autobiographical colors, and there are many shadows of Jin Min in different characters

今敏 directly used and described the life scene as a cartoonist in “Works” (OPUS), all kinds of professional anxiety encountered in daily life, being edited by the editor, being appraised by readers, etc., and I am “real” in the ending. Appearance.”

See Jin Min in “My Dream Road” broke the news: “The protagonist’s workplace is completely drawn according to the room where he lived at the time. It is really interesting to draw things around him.”

◎ The story is suspenseful, and the atmosphere is horrified; the narrative is set in a pendulum, and the layers are progressive; the character is distinct and full of tension; the action scene is dense, the Chinese element of “Gaisai”, the Hong Kong film moves, and the film is wonderfully divided and Transition; fully mobilize the expressive power of the onomatopoeia, use the “sound effect” to tell the story, the reading experience is like watching the audiovisual blockbuster! A cross-dimensional cross-over drama + high concept burning brain!

Story type, scene setting:

“Science Fiction” “Suspense Thriller” “Fantasy Adventure”.
“Parallel universe” “Different dimension crossing” “Butterfly effect”.
“Kowloon Walled City” “Abandoned Building” “Wasteland Aesthetics” “Post-modern Doom”.

Characters, skill points settings:

“Hot blood policewoman” “Cult leader” “serial killer”.
“The sacred painter” “Death edit”.
“Kung Fu Kid” “Prophet Lolita” “AI Old Woman”.
“VR brainwashing” “reading mind” “virtual drugs”.

◎ “The meta-narrative” “super-fiction” theme in the field of comics pioneering, breaking the fictional and realistic dimension wall with a rigorous brain hole, creating double nesting, parallel universe, mirror reflex, separation effect, There is a play in the play, a dream in the dream! There is a sense of excitement in one breath, and a huge amount of detail that can be used repeatedly

Text planning, drawing on psychological theories such as Freud, Jung, Lacan, existential philosophy, and post-modernism from aesthetics and narrative experiments, from themes to the forms, all reflect the current mastery The superb skills of “realism” and “surrealism”

The title “Works” (OPUS) – a pun, set-up structure, open up the “manga world”, “real world”, “created real world” three time and space

The cover of the booklet, red and blue CP, mirror image, the cover of the book is the back cover of the next book, the back cover of the book is the cover of the next book

◎ Full-scale engraving original version, design, high-quality reproduction details, suitable for collection

Although it is a monochrome manga, because of the use of ink and high printing requirements, the imported Heidelberg two-color printing machine is rarely used in the market; for the convenience of reading, the lock is used for binding

◎ The long animation movie plan is in progress!

According to the official confirmation, “Works” (OPUS) will be adapted into an animated film, and the producer is still a long-term partner of Jin Min, a friend of life, and a legendary filmmaker in Japan, Maruyama Masao
今敏 Lifelong loved musician, gold partner Ping Zejin, in the 2018 new album “Back = Back”, included the music that was created in advance for the “Work” (OPUS)

◎ “Works” (OPUS) to Jin Min, like Fellini’s “Eight and a Half” + Cohen Brothers’ “Barton Fink” + Woody Allen’s “Cairo Purple Rose”!

Other analogous similar themes and types of works: “Alice in Wonderland”, “The World of Truman”, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”, “The Matrix”, “Adapted Screenplay”, “New York’s Metaphor”, “Dangerous Days” “Sparkling” “Children’s Dream” “Crystal Love”

◎ Artists in the fields of film, animation, comics, etc. can also refer to the study of split mirror techniques

Media recommendation.

“the narrative of the meta-fiction of Jin Min makes the work full of doubts about existentialism and fatalism.” – Fandom Post.

“The most modern style you can imagine!” – The American magazine The Comics’ Journal.

Celebrity recommendation.

Critic Paul Gravett listed “Works” (OPUS) as one of the 10 best comics of 2014, and considered the comics to be full of whimsy, a “new refreshing dollar” “Comics”, and said that this work is similar to the style of Jin Min’s animation works, and should be very suitable for adaptation to animation

Awards record.

won the 2013 ACBD Asia Review Award.
Shortlisted in the 2014 Angolan International Comic Festival Main Competition Unit.
Was named the 2016 American Youth Library Association’s Outstanding Image Novel.

Author’s introduction.

Satoshi Kon was born on October 12, 1963 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Due to the transfer of his father’s work, he spent the four years from the age of four to the third grade of elementary school. He went to Sapporo life from the fourth grade to the second grade of junior high school, and then returned to Kushiro until he graduated from high school

今敏 is not only a student of the same grade in the Sapporo, but also a very good friend. Jin Min was determined to engage in art creation when he was studying at Huling High School in Kushiro, Hokkaido. In 1982, he entered the Visual Communication Design Department of the Musashino Art University. The comic book “虏-TORIKO-” (1984), which was created during the university, won the “Chiba Tommy Award and Outstanding Newcomer Award” sponsored by “Weekly Young Magazine” (Talker), starting with the second work “Curve”. Jin Min officially debuted as a cartoonist

After graduating from university in 1987, he published “The Return of the Sea” (1990) and “The Horror Taoyuan” (originally an animation directed by Daiyou Keyang, who was later adapted by Jin Min, and the original case was also from the hands of Jin Min) Wait for many works. Since then, he has entered the field of animation and turned into an animated film director with an “unproductive house.” His other work, “The Millennium Girl”, together with Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, won the Japanese Arts Department’s Media Art Festival Award and became a phenomenal work. On August 24, 2010, Jin Min died of pancreatic cancer

Brief introduction.

The characters in the cartoonist “Yongjing Li” actually broke through the paper.
Stealed the most critical page in the manuscript!
The deadline for the deadline is approaching, he has to go all the way to the world he created…
“Hot blood policewoman” “serial killer” “time and space through” “VR brainwashing”.
The blood of the innocent victim is not just the cartoon of the cartoonist.
Reality and fiction, intertwined into a maze where the “author” can’t get away…
Each debut character meets him, how will the two worlds that are collapsing end?