Tomoyo Murakami has been influenced by his family since he was a child, and he particularly likes many traditional skills in his country, especially Kabuki performances. But her preferences are much more expensive than the cost of chasing stars for girls of the same age. Every time she wants to watch a Kabuki performance, it will cost her nearly three months of part-time wages.
So after hearing that today's Kabuki performance is a practice performance for laymen and trainee Kabuki actors who haven't been able to stand on their own, she will give members free admission to watch it, she chose to go there without hesitation.
In her opinion, even if the performance is not very good, at least she can see those beautiful costumes and stages, and she can still have material to complain when she gets home. Baili but no harm, I just have time, why not go to see the lively
Today's first performance is a segment of Mingshen. That's right, today's performance is not completed according to the complete whole plot, but a practice performance section by section.
But even if the audience couldn't read the whole story, the seats in the whole theater were still filled with many bored old people and hobbyists.
As the lights in the theater went dark, a long folk music came out of the sound, and the sound of Shamisen was beating people's heartstrings. A burly and tall figure staggered out from the door of the lounge on the left behind the auditorium, and walked to the center of the stage step by step through the flower arrangement.
Tomoyo Murakami looked curiously at the Kabuki's face, which was taller than the Naruto Venerable Master Naruto he had seen before. Then she was surprised to find that this guy seems to be a foreigner? Although he has heavy makeup on his face, it can still be seen from the contours of his face.
His act of being drunk is a little stiff, and it looks awkward, but he is so precise that he can't say anything wrong. After he walked to the center of the stage and sat down with his legs crossed, the most important female character in Mingshen appeared again on the flower arrangement, the Jue Se Ji in the cloud.
Still a foreigner! But... so beautiful...! ! ! For the first time, Tomoyo Murakami did not focus on the performance of Kabuki, but on the face of this female Kabuki. When he appeared, he attracted the attention of everyone in the field, and even caused some commotion.
Different from the makeup effect of traditional Kabuki, if the small eyes of most Japanese people make them look like the Danfengyan beauty in the ancient beauty picture after they put on the white geisha makeup. Then this foreigner's female form looks like a resin doll with spherical joints.
Compared with the Dolls for the Girls' Festival, it has a more realistic three-dimensional effect, but it is also more beautiful. The appearance of the female ghost who is often criticized by people who don't understand Kabuki is probably impossible to say a word in him. Dan red eyebrows and eyeliner, cherry red lips and a shy and timid expression.
Walking out of the flower arrangement with small steps, the upper body does not move like a mountain, like a puppet being lifted and slid, floating to the stage so lightly. Because of the appearance of the little woman, he lowered his head slightly, revealing the slender back of his neck. The radian and angularity of the side face perfectly interprets what is called Yi Gu Qingrenguo.
The mandarin duck-colored kimono with sleeves and gorgeous hair accessories, which are distinguished from the front of the clothes, is the most conspicuous of the flower curtains made of silver. The flower curtain swayed slightly with Yun Zhongji's pace, but did not make a sound. Tomoyo Murakami's wide eyes moved his gaze to the foot of the Kabuki.
Covered by the long hem of the kimono, only when you gently lift your legs will people see those slender white ankles. Tomoyo Murakami was not sure for a while whether this Kabuki was a woman or a woman. But the other party's walking skills are very good, which cannot be questioned.
If this time is a layman's performance, why can the other party have such a standard small step performance? Is it really just the same as the program introduction, only one afternoon
If Tomoyo Murakami could ask Brian this question in person, he would definitely tell her that it was because this technique of controlling the movements of body parts actually had something in common with the mechanical dance. Although Brian's main dance is jazz dance, he has also practiced mechanical dance in the dance company.
Moreover, compared to the dazzling mechanical dance, most of the skills Brian learned were based on aesthetics. As long as someone cooperated, he could perform a vivid puppet show.
As the audience watched with gusto, Brian wore a Takashimada-style wig and heavy hair accessories. He worked hard to manage his expressions, took small steps to the center of the stage, and exchanged glances with Di Long, who was playing the role of Lord Mingshen. In line with the idea of completing the task as soon as possible, a series of lines marked in Roman accents quickly passed in my mind.
Walking to the position where he should sit in the center of the stage, Brian began to recall the sitting position that Dian Guang had instructed him to do again and again, and his knees would be bruised. Trying to adapt to the heavy short-knot belt behind him, he knelt down and sat down gracefully.
Then he picked up the orchid finger and lifted the small wine barrel that could be held up with one hand, pursed his lips and said in a false voice, "Master, if you have the heart, why don't you eat half of my broken bar."
Hearing Brian's strange tone of pretending to be a Joe, Dillon's eyes showed an uncontrollable smile as he looked at Brian disguised as a woman. This kind of smile was obviously taken as a mockery by Brian, and Dillon's expression made Brian stare at him with little movement.
"Charming nature... God, why do you even show such good eyes? The seductive gesture is vivid." Murakami Tomoyo, who had been staring at Brian's every move, couldn't help but whispered after seeing Brian's staring action. exclaimed exclaimed.
No one around looked at her because they were all intoxicated in this performance. Tomoyo Murakami's words were exactly what they were thinking, so no one thought there was anything wrong with her exclamation. And Brian's slender and beautiful hands fiddle with the barrels, which is simply a benefit of hand control.
If Brian were to know what these audiences were thinking, he would have rolled his eyes, complaining that these people were too imaginative to understand pictures. He just gave Dillon an unhappy glance, and there was no intention to seduce him. But this misunderstanding helped him a lot.
Even if he and Dillon read their lines with a strange accent, no one would focus on watching it these days. On the contrary, because of their superb acting skills, they preconceived that they fell in love with this "layman" performance, the clip of Yunzhong Ji persuading wine in Mingshen Li.
"Add wine to fill your blessings, and wine to pour your blessings. Venerable Master, let's have another drink..." With Brian's Jewel in the Clouds and Dillon's Lord Mingshen, the scenes of persuading and drinking went back and forth for nearly ten minutes. Afterwards, Master Mingshen was finally able to "drunk", while Yunzhongji took the opportunity to cut off the rope that locked him with the Dragon God.
The scene came to an end, and the two foreigners did not make any gestures to thank the audience, but quietly retreated to the scene following the Japanese tradition. It was a natural move, but it made Tomoyo Murakami, who had always wanted to know the name of the female-shaped Kabuki, a little pity. She made up her mind that after the performance, she must ask the theater staff where the two of them came from.
The second group of players who appeared after that, Zoe and Joseph. Joseph's petite stature has beaten Brian a bit in this regard. It's just that his sister Zoe pretended to be a man. Although she tried her best, she was too petite because of her body size, so the main scene of Mingshen's persuading him to drink became a comedy.
Fortunately, the audience knew in advance that today's performance was for a layman to experience, so there was no uproar. Bryan and Dillon removed their make-up and changed as fast as they could while Zoe and Joseph sluggishly finished their lines.
Received the address of this transit station in Japan from Dianguang. At the entrance of a soup house-style hotel at the foot of Mount Fuji, Brian and Dillon hurriedly packed their luggage and took the last bus of the day, and hurried there. .
Although on the detour on the Kabuki side, Brian and Dillon are undoubtedly the quickest to complete. However, the model group, the cowboy group and the cancer survivor father and son chose another team to detour, which became an unknown variable.
Fortunately, the advantage of the time gap formed by the previous efforts made it possible for Sam and Dean, who chose Johnny's stage play to complete the first to complete, to fall behind Brian and Dillon by one step, and the two thrilled again. Another first-place win at the transfer station.
After the first group of teams boarding the plane to Japan all arrived at the relay station, it was not until it got dark that the second echelon combination of the second batch of boarding finally arrived at the relay station. And because today's game was very long and difficult, the retired elderly couple in the second echelon, Catherine and Paul, finally arrived and were eliminated.
After three rounds of competition, the eleven teams that originally participated have now become eight groups including Brian and Dillon. The next day, speeding forward without stopping starts again. They went to the ancient city of Lijiang, China. This time everyone got on the same plane and went back to the same starting point again.
In the winding ancient city, it is a big problem to find a way while doing tasks. The roadblock task is to find five specific locations in the maze-like ancient city and collect items to clear the customs. Using sunlight to distinguish east, west, north and south, Dillon's existence kept Brian from becoming blindfolded.
But Zoe and Joseph fell behind for a while because they got lost. In the end, he could only ask Brian and Dillon for that extra fast-forward card, and after using it, the fate of elimination was avoided. In the detour mission, in the selection of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain summit and the ancient tea-horse trail, Sam and Dean took advantage of their familiarity with equestrianism to win the championship in one fell swoop.
Brian and Dillon ended the championship after three rounds, and the first place this time was won by the two brothers. Bryan and Dillon chased after the second, and then eliminated was the otaku group who finally couldn't hold on and made many mistakes, and loved e-sports, Johansson and Louie.
That night, I went back to the inn in the ancient city of Lijiang to rest. When the next day dawned, the seven teams that were advancing very fast would set off again.
Double bed room in the inn, before going to bed.
"Wait, when did you pack this photo in your luggage?! How come I don't know?!" Brian pulled out a wooden photo frame from Dillon's backpack, took a look and took it out in shock. Dillon, who had just come out of the shower, said with only a towel around his lower body. "Didn't I tell you to throw it away quickly! Take up the weight!"
Dillon was stunned, mute the stubble that appeared on his face. Looking at the one that Brian in the bathrobe was holding, it was framed like a Japanese wedding photo, and the two of them were wearing costumes and kimonos. The theater staff helped to take the Polaroid photo. Brian's face was covered with white powder, and he aimed at his thin eyebrows, and the peaks of his eyebrows were lightly condensed.
His lips were even more crimson and a little red, accompanied by the women's kimono with sleeves. It's beautiful, like an old photo of quite a period of time. Finally, Brian was shown the photo that he couldn't keep his usual smiling face with the mask, and couldn't help but fry. Of course Dillon will take good care of it.
"Oh... it's okay, I'll just carry it. It's a souvenir anyway."
"roll!"