Chapter 196: Memories of Boyhood
Masayoshi Kishimoto and Makoto Natsui walked around the outdoors before returning home. When they passed by the disc rental shop, they walked in and rented the entire Tokyo Love Story, the founder of the idol drama.
Japanese disc rental shops are completely different from Chinese disc rental shops. The former has a community that rents **** videos, after all, they are completely legal.
Even if the latter has **** videos rented, it is illegal and is being carried out secretly. After entering the store, it is like an underground party joint. If you ask the boss, what kind of movie is there?
The boss will first check whether the person looks like a plainclothes policeman, then take a look outside the store, and finally, either take the person into another small room to choose which kind of film, or pull down the roller shutter door and other half, and then take out the kind of film to give you a choice.
The daily rental price of such films is also higher than that of normal films. Not only are there adults, but also students from time to time.
At that time, especially middle school students renting movies, it was a kind of courage among friends. As a former 1980s, Masayoshi Kishimoto knew very well that the sex education of their generation did not come from the "Health and Hygiene" taught in school classrooms, but all came from the movies.
That kind of film played an indispensable role in the sex education and sexual enlightenment of Chinese post-80s. This is an irrefutable fact.
He remembered very clearly that when he first watched that kind of movie, he was in the second grade of junior high school. A group of boys in a class gathered at a classmate's house at noon, and his face turned red and he was so excited.
The whole process was very excited, afraid that I would miss a shot. Even in class in the afternoon, I was still excited, and the flush on my face was still maintained for a long time.
The boys who have watched that kind of movies are still gathered during class, which is a hot topic that is hard to eliminate. Some of the exciting scenes in the class who have not seen that kind of movies are envious when they know it.
They all asked to call him next time they watched that kind of movie. If a girl accidentally heard a single ear and ran away with a blushing face.
As time goes by, I watch those movies more often, and later I grow up and work, especially with a personal computer, and no longer have the patience to watch the entire movie from beginning to end.
This basically happens to the urban children born in the 1980s. Many rural children born in the 1980s only saw the so-called film for the first time after entering college.
Their shock was far more than the first time that the city children watched movies. In addition, some bad teenagers went to the black video hall to watch movies with young people, middle-aged people and the elderly.
Masayoshi Kishimoto was awakened by his lost youthful time in his previous life because he walked into a disc rental store this time. For this reason, he remembered another thing.
At this time, in China in 1999, Aido VCD, endorsed by Jackie Chan, became popular all over the country and was once one of the most successful brands in the Chinese home appliance industry. Founder Hu Zhibiao is also a legend.
However, next year, in 2000, Aido VCD will go bankrupt. It only took about four years to go from scratch, from small to large, from glory to destruction.
When she returned home, Makoto Natsui did not go directly to the living room, but rushed to the kitchen. After washing her hands by the sink, she went to the refrigerator to get the fruits and prepare to make a fruit assorted platter.
Masayoshi Kishimoto went directly to the living room. He turned on the TV and DVD player respectively. After he put the disc of the first episode of "Tokyo Love Story" into the DVD player, he changed the channel to the one on which the TV specially played the video.
After waiting for a moment, the music prelude that could fully awaken the personal related memories sounded from the surround sound of my family.
Masayoshi Kishimoto couldn't help but feel a little excited, holding the remote control in his right hand as a microphone, and sang loudly.
When Oda Kazuma finished singing the theme song "Sudden Love" with the opening screen and the film was about to officially begin, he pressed the pause button in his hand.
Masayoshi Kishimoto turned around and sat on the sofa, waiting patiently for Makoto Natsui to come with the fruit plate, and then the two of them watched together.
He couldn't help but talk to himself and suddenly talked about 1999. At this time of his previous life, he was about to graduate from junior high school and was preparing to take the high school entrance examination a few months later.
His early love did not happen in junior high school like many boys, but in elementary school. His first crush was not the few cute girls in the class, but the young Chinese teacher who had just started working.
He remembered very clearly that his primary school Chinese teacher graduated from a local college. If this was put into practice twenty years later, it would be a joke about his academic qualifications.
In the university town, you can throw down ten bricks at will, and seven out of the ten hits will be undergraduates. As for the remaining three, they will all hit graduate students.
This year was not only the beginning of the expansion of college entrance examinations in mainland China, but also the beginning of the gradual depreciation of academic qualifications. At this time, the media advocated various advantages of university enrollment expansion, but deliberately avoided the employment issues after graduation.
After all, after 1996, no longer had the allocation after graduation. Self-employment is a good idea, which makes the group of poor college students who have no social relations, no social background, and no social channels originally expected to change their destiny in college, but opened a very difficult job hunting path.
They went to college to exhaust all their family's resources and even had a lot of debt. The pressure they were under is not ordinary.
In addition, the Asian financial crisis, which began in the second half of 1997 and ended until the end of 1998, also negatively affected the entire land of China. Even Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were not spared.
At the same time, the first national wave of laid-offs that started in 1998 not only caused many state-owned enterprises to go bankrupt, but also caused many people to lose their jobs.
Even in February 1999, there were not many new jobs, but small businesses continued to emerge like mushrooms after a rain.
Originally, there was only one small vendor selling breakfast on the street, but it suddenly became ten. At the same time, the number of unemployed people in society is also increasing.
College graduates are here to compete with these people for job opportunities and jobs, and you can imagine how cruel the competition will be. It is no wonder that college graduates sell steamed buns, buns, vegetables, etc.
It is even so miserable that many urban families will go to the ground to pick up some unwanted vegetables and leaves to eat after they have collected them in the vegetable market. What’s even more miserable is suicide.
It was not only in mainland China, but also in Japan. After World War II, the peak of Japan's suicide rate was in the entire 1990s.
As for college graduates who have relationships, backgrounds, and skills, they will naturally have a job arranged by their homes.
Polarization is highlighted, and the other end of the journey towards wealth is getting richer and more people are growing, while most of them are concentrated in major cities along the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south. After all, the north is the hardest hit area for economic damage to this major change.
Chapter completed!