In April 2022, the news of the well-known Japanese director Sonoko Wen sexually assaulting an actress detonated the entertainment circle. According to the media, all the actresses who participated in Yuan Ziwen's films were "unspoken" in order to be promoted. Yuan Ziwen is a director known as a "ghost talent", but little-known is that his gentle appearance hides unbearable ugliness. Inspirational
director from a young age Sono Ziwen's distinctiveness was evident in his childhood. Sonoko Wen was born in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in December 1961. There is a famous industrial county in Japan, there are many jobs, and people's lives are generally better. In addition, Yuan Ziwen's parents are teachers, and the conditions at home are even better than the average person. Growing up in a well-off family in such an economically developed area, Yuan Ziwen's childhood seemed to be spent in a greenhouse, free from wind and rain, no worries about food and clothing, and his family believed that he would grow up to be a good and sensible boy. Unexpectedly, this "rose seed", which had high hopes in the greenhouse, unexpectedly bears "piranha fruit" - Yuan Ziwen's attention has been unique since he was a child, and he hates being a well-behaved "good boy". ”, likes to attract people’s attention with bizarre and rebellious behavior. For example, when he was in school, he didn't want to wear a school uniform, so he simply went to school naked. The teacher ordered him to put on the school uniform, and Yuan Ziwen put on the school uniform shirt the next day, naked, and swaggered around the campus with a fearless face. Even though the Japanese school spirit is very open, Yuan Ziwen's outrageous behavior still gives teachers a headache. They saw that the persuasion was useless many times, and they no longer bothered about his subsequent behavior. With the connivance of teachers and parents, Yuan Ziwen's behavior became more and more outrageous. When Yuan Ziwen was 17 years old, he was about to graduate from school and enter the society. The classmates around are sending their resumes everywhere to find jobs, but Yuan Ziwen is disappointed with her hometown because of her own reasons. He wrote many poems to express his dissatisfaction with reality. People regarded this young man as a poet, but few people could see through his heart. "I really can't waste my good years in this place where birds don't shit!"
On the days of graduation, Sonoko clenched her fists indignantly, and complained to her sister Maki about her anguish: "There are shackles that imprison me everywhere!"
Maki has admired her brother since she was a child. She knew that, Next, Yuan Ziwen has to make some shocking decisions. She solemnly gave all the pocket money she had saved to her brother, and said that no matter what he decides, she will always support him.
With the encouragement of his sister, Sonoko Wen put on the guitar and ran away from home the next morning, and came to Tokyo from Toyokawa alone. Maki didn't have much pocket money, just enough for him to buy some bread for breakfast along the way. Soon, Yuan Ziwen was penniless. During the day, he wanders or sings on the streets of Tokyo, trying to be photographed by girls and going to the hotel to complete an "adventure"; at night, he sleeps on a park bench, enduring mosquito bites to spend the long night.
After a few days of starvation like this, just when Yuan Ziwen could hardly hold on, a young woman finally approached him. In fact, she had already observed Yuan Ziwen on the street for a long time, and determined that this young man was not dangerous, so she walked straight to him, put her face to his cheek, and exhaled in his ear: "You are willing to follow me to the hotel, Let's go to the peak of life together?"
This sentence did not make Yuan Ziwen's face red, on the contrary, he was so excited that he didn't even care to put on the guitar, so he happily followed the young woman to a nearby hotel.
When they opened the room and Yuan Ziwen was lying on the big bed excitedly to meet the beautiful moment, the young woman who had been facing him suddenly turned her head, and the tears on her face made Yuan Ziwen horrified. I saw that she quickly took out a cold dagger from her bag, and shouted at Sono Ziwen: "We are all abandoned people, let's die together!"
These sad tears and shouts, like It was a sound of thunder that suddenly blew Yuan Ziwen up. He did not expect that he would meet a tragic woman who had just divorced her husband. Yuan Ziwen jumped up from the bed with a carp. Taking advantage of the young woman's unpreparedness, she grabbed the dagger from her hand with all her strength, opened the window and threw it out.
This series of movements of the young man in front of him was so fast that the young woman was stunned. Through the mist of tears in her eyes, she stared at the young face full of hormones in front of her. Suddenly, she didn't have such a strong yearning for death.
Instead, she wiped away her tears and tenderly asked Yuan Ziwen to play her husband and go back to the countryside with her.
Yuan Ziwen, whose thinking is always very different from ordinary people, readily agrees to this proposal. He followed the young woman back to her hometown in the countryside, pretending to be in love with her, and finally realized his purpose of running away from home.
But being entangled by this woman who is more than ten years older than me every day, watching her arguing over trivial matters in a small village, is undoubtedly a kind of torture. After staying for a few months, he waved goodbye to the young woman who had returned to normal.
This bizarre experience inspired Yuan Ziwen's original creative inspiration. After returning to Tokyo from the countryside, Sono Ziwen watched some movies and had the idea of putting his own experiences into the movies.
The ideal change from "poet" to "director" is driven by his incredible life experience in Tokyo.
Of course, the materials in Yuan Ziwen's life that are enough to shock his jaw include not only the wonderful "adventure" of a young woman, but also many shocking legends such as falling in love with the daughter of a gangster in Tokyo, being raped on the bed, and almost dying. Incident...
Alternative works
Behind the erotic behavior
In 1990, after several years of preparation, the first film directed by the 29-year-old Sono Ziwen, "Sigh Bicycle", finally came out. This film directed and starred by Sono Ziwen is almost a true projection of Sono Ziwen's teenage years. Under the banner of finding himself, Sono Ziwen used this debut film to compose the growth song of his wasted youth.
Unexpectedly, this young film became an instant hit due to its novel creative angle, galloping across Berlin and Eurasian film festivals, and since then it has created a new style that is unique to Yuan Ziwen's film.
Since then, Yuan Ziwen has won major awards in the film industry with his new works.
In 1994, he won the Special Jury Prize of Sundance Films for his feature film "The House"; in 1998, he directed the action film "Man's Flower Arrangement", which won the Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prize; in 2002, he directed the thriller "Cycle Suicide" In 2005, he won the jury award of "Berlin Zeitung" at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival with the horror and suspense film "Mysterious Circus"...
Surrounded by the halo of many heavyweight awards, the pursuit of bizarre The innovative Sonoko Wen was praised by Japanese fans with unique tastes. He doesn't seem to be an artist who likes to pursue money. On the contrary, he never pursues making movies that sell well at the box office. Instead, he chooses to make what he wants to make. It's good to burn his own little universe and satisfy a strange soul like him.
Therefore, in Sono Ziwen's film, it is full of flesh, and even the scene of the protagonist's suicide by lying on the rails is described as extremely anticipated by him. Sono Ziwen calls it "strange romance". This kind of bad taste makes Sono Ziwen's fans crazy, and it also strongly promotes Sono Ziwen's reputation.
The popularity of these alternative works is inseparable from Yuan Ziwen's strict requirements for actors. In his lens, it is common for the heroine to perform large-scale dramas. If she is not obedient, she will be mercilessly locked in a small dark room by the director, and she will not give up until the actress begs for mercy and fully cooperates with the director's design.
In December 2011, Sonoko Wen and his queen actress Kagurazaka Megumi got married. During their relationship, Kagurazaka Megumi, who was 19 years younger than Sonoko Wen, appeared in many films directed by her boyfriend. Although Kagurazaka Megumi was regarded as a goddess by otaku in Japan, and was in love with Sono Ziwen at the time, the strict Sonozi Wen seemed to have no understanding of pity for incense and jade, high standards and strict requirements, often making Kagurazaka Megumi cry , and even made her contribute a large-scale nude sex scene in the heavy-duty films "Icy Tropical Fish" and "The Crime of Love"!
"We must dare to try, so as to expand the possibilities of the film world!" On
the set, Sono Ziwen said seriously, making all the production staff respect him. However, what is surprising is that off-set, every actress who wants to star in his film has to satisfy all the quirks of this wonderful director!
Before the marriage, Sonoko was often an unspoken actress. In this regard, Kagurazaka Megumi is not completely ignorant of this, but she is infatuated with Sonoko Wen's talent and fame, and she turns one eye and closes one eye, happily marrying him.
Although Kagurazaka Megumi has a first-class and beautiful wife, Yuan Ziwen still needs to "find inspiration" under the constant stimulation of freshness.
Shortly after the wedding, after the new film was selected, Wen Ziwen called the actress Sakurai-cho, who was about to appear in his work, to his office and made a request straight to the point.
"You must know the rules. When you appear in my film, you must serve me comfortably. Well, I'm still in a hurry. Take off your clothes and lie on the bed now!" The
young Sakurai-machi was completely frightened by these words. , she couldn't believe it came from the mouth of a famous director she admired. She stood there in shock, and Sakurai-machi didn't remember trying to break free until Sonoko Wen rushed up to force her to take off her clothes.
Being rejected by this young girl made Yuan Ziwen feel very embarrassed. He picked up the phone and called an actress he had worked with before. Five minutes later, the actress named Qianyue appeared in Sono Ziwen's office with a terrified expression on her face.
Sonoko Wen did not say a word, dragged Qianyue violently, and pushed her to the bed...
This scene in front of her made Sakurai-machi terrified. Qianyue, who is well-known in the industry and has many fans, was tortured to the point of tears and shivering in pain, but did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
Yuan Ziwen seemed to feel extremely happy. He protested arrogantly to Sakurai-machi, who was standing beside him: "Look, there are women who want to appear in my films, without me, they would have no job!"
Sure enough, Sakurai-machi, who failed to satisfy the director, was quickly notified, saying, "The image is not good. For the reason of "suitable for this film", I lost the opportunity to appear in Sono Ziwen's film.
Sakurai-cho was furious, and immediately wanted to expose the director's bestiality. But when she found Qianyue and wanted to get her support and stand up to protect the rights and interests of actresses, Qianyue's agent declined on the grounds of "no time". Disappointed in Sakurai-cho, when she was about to turn around and leave, Qianyue's manager said to her: "When the dark clouds are shrouded, there are always people who think that running forward can avoid the rain, but in fact the best way is to get to the eaves. Only by hiding can you protect yourself..."
Because the actress's first reaction was to "hide" when she was violated, Sono Ziwen was arrogant and bold, and did not hide what he had done. He once boasted: "If you want to work, you have to approach me," "I have basically done with the actresses who star in the lead!"
Although this director is a formidable lecher, his work is indeed a hit, and it also makes The actresses had to give in to him.
"Sono Ziwen is a devil!" Sayuri, an actress who was frantically tortured by Sono Ziwen to get the role, trembled with hatred when she mentioned the director. Almost all the humiliated actresses look forward to one day taking revenge on this villain after becoming popular.
But the Japanese entertainment industry is already dirty. In addition to Yuan Ziwen, there will be others who will extend their black hands to them, and the girls who bear these will either quit the circle with hatred after earning enough money or can't bear the humiliation, or become a popular actress. , In order to maintain his pure image, he had to hide this history.
And Yuan Ziwen officially entered the film and television industry from the age of 29. In the more than 30 years until 2022, his interest in young women has never changed, and he has even continued to pursue intensified means to make them submit to beg for mercy, in order to stimulate creative inspiration. Purpose.
The scandal was exposed
and was reprimanded by the whole network. As the
saying goes, "It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come."
Just when Sono Ziwen relied on his talent and became more and more lawless, he didn't expect that the actresses who were insulted by him could no longer bear it, and they finally united spontaneously. In April 2022, Yuan Ziwen was exposed by "Weekly Women", saying that he had unspoken rules on actresses, pressured them, and exchanged sex for roles!
"Ten years ago, he invited me to his high-end apartment in Tokyo, pulled me into the room and stretched out his dewclaws... Although I was lucky enough to escape the scene, I was quickly kicked out by his crew!"
"Sonoko Wen He told me that he is a director who keeps his promises. As long as I sleep with him, I will get the chance to play the leading role!"
"He personally said that all the actresses who appeared in his films had basically had a relationship with him..."
These The shocking voice pulled Sono Ziwen down from the altar of "talent director". Those fans who once admired him so much were deeply hurt by his lewd behavior and expressed that they would never watch his movies again.
"It turns out that the erotic scenes we thought we imagined were all practiced by him on actresses!"
"It's unbelievable! My goddess Kagurazaka Megumi just gave birth to a daughter for him two or three years ago, How could he do such a betrayal of his family!"
Fans all over the Internet launched a denunciation action against Yuan Ziwen, denouncing his "scumbag" behavior. However, these questioning voices did not shake Sono Ziwen's already numb and indifferent heart. Moreover, in the Japanese entertainment industry, the director or actor unspoken actress has become a habit. Before the Yuan Ziwen incident was exposed, in mid-March 2022, "Weekly Wenchun" published a report about the director's sexual assault on an actress being reported by 9 people; a few days later, on March 23, "Weekly Wenchun" again It was revealed that Kushika Kinoshita, a well-known supporting actor who had collaborated with Sakaki many times, sexually assaulted the actress, and the two actresses came forward to confirm...
So, when the fire of "sexual assault" ignited on Sono Ziwen, he initially did not agree with him. No panic. But as more and more actresses came forward to testify, Yuan Ziwen could only bow his head under pressure.
On April 6, Sono Ziwen's office published an apology letter written by him. Sono Ziwen said that he lacked self-consciousness as a director, and he did not consider the people around him fully. He will re-examine this point in the future. At the same time, he also said that some of the news that broke out recently is inconsistent with the facts, and he will take legal measures to safeguard his legitimate rights and interests.
This soft and hard apology letter is in line with Yuanzi Wen's always cold style, but no matter how he cleans it up, he can't straighten his image in the hearts of fans. Soon, six famous Japanese directors issued a joint statement in response to a series of incidents of using their powers to infringe on actors: "I hope the victims will not be harmed again, and I hope that those in an authoritative position in the work of film directors can carefully check Whether there is a similar problem at the scene, create a safe space for all the actors and staff."
Whether the Japanese entertainment industry is "safe" after that, we don't know, we can only hope that the erotic devil in human skin like Sono Ziwen will be permanently banned . A generation of "genius directors" has since fallen, and I hope it will lead to more rational thinking about Japanese pornographic films. (Because of privacy concerns, except Kagurazaka Megumi, all other actresses in the article are pseudonyms.)
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