“Pumpkin and Mayonnaise” Pay attention to the genius manga artist “Kiriko Uokami” who continues to be loved by the movie director!

"Pumpkin and Mayonnaise" synopsis

Tsuchida, who works at a live house, secretly works at a cabaret club to support his live-in girlfriend, Seiichi, so that he can realize his dream of becoming a musician. On the other hand, Seiichi is in a slump, having mixed feelings about the fact that the band he left out of has signed a contract with a record company and replaced them with a gravure idol as the vocalist. spend. At that time, Tsuchida is approached by a customer, Yasuhara, who comes to the store and offers her a mistress contract, saying that she has a job that will earn her more money. One night, the money he had hidden from his mistress is discovered, and Seiichi goes to work after learning that Tsuchida is having a physical relationship with the man. Then, just when Tsuchida starts working exclusively at live music venues like before, her past lover Hagio (Joe Odagiri), who she still can't forget, appears in front of her. The feelings from the time when he was hiding come back to life, and he becomes obsessed with his relationship with Hagio, clinging to the past.

Index

• Who is Kiriko Uokami, a genius manga artist with little work?
• Asami Usuda really wanted to play Tsuchida

Who is Kiriko Uokami, a genius manga artist with little work?

``Pumpkin and Mayonnaise'' is about Seiichi, a musician who has left the band and is now smoldering in his room, and his struggling lover, Tsuchida, who painfully believes that if Seiichi makes new songs, he will shine again. It depicts the days of. This work is in the area of ​​women's comics and was published on November 25, 1999. At that time , manga artists such as Qita Minami , Erika Sakurazawa , Moyoko Yasuno , and George Asakura created a new trend by openly depicting the sex, emotions, and lives of women in their 20s in their manga. was. Unlike the older generation of girls' manga artists who didn't want to show their faces, some of them actively appear in the media, talking not only about their own work but also about culture and fashion, acting as multifaceted media outlets. Ta. Many of his works have been made into movies; for example, Naina Yamada participated in episode 10 of the TV drama `` Private Detective Hama Mike '' as a screenwriter.

As shown in ``Pumpkin and Mayonnaise,'' Kiriko Uokami has many musician friends, and the story reflects her experiences of being close to music, such as participating in band activities. He is a rare writer who boils down his own experiences to capture the most impressive mental landscape of a certain situation. He crystallizes the various moments that move our hearts, such as the ``most heartbreaking moments,'' ``the moments when we feel like throwing up,'' and ``the moments when we want someone the most,'' that occur in our daily lives, and writes them down in simple lines. He is an artist who makes you feel as if you are looking at a hand-drawn painting by an ukiyo-e artist. Although he hasn't released a full-length novel since his mid-30s, looking at his soulful and stoic lines, it seems like there's no stopping him. (In a conversation published in 2014, nominated by Passpie 's vocalist Natsuki Ogoda, Uokami said, ``I've quit being a manga artist, I haven't quit being an artist, but now I'm living my life.'' While I'm experiencing a lot of things, I'm at a time where I'm increasing my experience as a person and accumulating material.So, I'm still working on it little by little, with the intention of announcing it once it takes shape. That's the feeling,'' he said.

"Pumpkin and Mayonnaise" (C) Kiriko Uobai/Shodensha, 2017 "Pumpkin and Mayonnaise" Production Committee

By the way, Uokatsu's works are loved by unique writers, and in 2002 Hiroshi Ando made a movie called `` Blue '', and in 2006, Hitoshi Yazaki adapted Uokatsu's `` Strawberry Shortcakes' ' into ` `Strawberry Shortcakes''. It was made into a movie as. ``Strawberry Shortcakes'' features an episode about a popular illustrator with an eating disorder and his female friend, and the illustrator is described by Toko Iwase herself. She creates works by vomiting all kinds of things from her delicate body, and brings out the ferocity, the pain, and the kind of boldness that only she can bring out. In 2005, Kohei Oguri published `` The Buried Tree, '' a story that begins with a page from a manga written by Uokami, and then connects to a story created by three high school girls.

Asami Usuda really wanted to play Tsuchida