The background of the creation of the movie "Strange Talk" (1964): Japanese Shinto believes in animism, and there are many ghost legends among the people. The film is adapted from the literary works of Shikai by Koizumi Yakumo, and its story is based on local Japanese folk tales, which provides rich material for the film. After World War II, the climate of Japanese weird tale films gradually took shape, and Masaki Kobayashi's "Weird Tales" contributed to the development of weird tale films with a unique artistic style on the basis of inheriting the tradition.

"Black Hair": Kyoto Samurai abandons his poor wife and marries a noble lady. Because his current wife is cold, he misses his ex-wife and goes home to reunite with his ex-wife who is waiting for him, only to wake up the next day to find that his ex-wife is white and has been entangled in her black hair.

"Snow Girl": The woodcutter and the old man hid in a wooden house in a snowstorm, and the Snow Girl broke in and blew the old man to death, sparing his life because of her love for him, so that he was not allowed to tell about the encounter. Later, Minoyoshi marries Yukiko, who resembles a snow girl, and he tells Yukiko about the past, and Yukiko reveals that she is the snow girl and leaves.

"Earless Fangyi": The blind monk Fangyi plays and sings the pipa well, and is often led by ghosts to sing in front of the tomb of the Ping family. The elders wrote scriptures all over his body to save him, but he missed his ears, and the ghost tore out his ears. But Fang Yi still insisted on playing the pipa for the souls of the dead, and finally got a good reward.

"In the Tea Bowl": When the samurai Kannai was drinking tea, he saw the face of a strange samurai in the tea bowl, he broke the tea bowl, and then the owner of the face and his "servant" samurai came, and the slashing of them in the sekinai slashed them, but the more they slashed, the more they were killed. Two hundred years later, his image appeared in the book publisher's tank.

Reasons for the film's sensation:

Unique Style: Combining traditional Japanese arts such as Noh and ukiyo-e with cinematic expressions to create a mysterious, aesthetic atmosphere with unique visual effects.

Profound connotation: Through four stories, themes such as human nature, emotion, cause and effect are explored from different perspectives, triggering the audience to think.

Awards: Won the second place in the Top Ten Film Awards at the 18th "Film Newspaper" Awards, the Special Jury Award at the 0th Cannes International Film Festival and many other awards, and was recognized by the international film industry.

Practical significance:

Cultural Inheritance: Inheriting and promoting Japan's traditional culture and folklore, allowing the audience to understand Japan's unique ghost culture and aesthetic concepts.

Thinking about human nature: Prompting the audience to think about desire, betrayal, kindness, tolerance, etc. in human nature, and using ghost stories as a carrier to reflect human problems in real life.

What to learn about the script:

1. Structural arrangement: The four independent stories are not only written separately, but also related to each other through the theme of "strange talks", showing the ghost world from different aspects, enriching the content and level of the film.

2. Theme expression: Use concise and allegorical stories to skillfully express profound themes, such as the discussion of love and human nature in "Black Hair", and the reflection on kindness and cause and effect in "Earless Fangyi".

3. Atmosphere creation: Through delicate text descriptions, a unique atmosphere is created for each story, such as the cold and ethereal of "Snow Girl" and the mysterious and weird of "Earless Fangyi", so that the audience is immersive.