Exploring the aesthetics of sadness behind the Chinese remake of “Jieyou grocery store”

Abstract

With the vigorous development of China’s film industry, many films that draw on Japanese works and shooting styles have also begun to appear in the film market. For example, Jieyou grocery store, a small grocery store carrying the troubles and joys of the people around it, is the core content of the material sorrow culture, and this seemingly simple idea has also had a wide and far-reaching impact on Chinese films. This paper mainly explores the influence of the spread and evolution of Japanese mourning culture in China on Chinese film production since the 1990s, when Japanese culture flourished in the mainland. Based on a large number of previous studies on the impact of Japanese mourning culture on Chinese culture and the spread of Japanese mourning culture in China, this paper mainly focuses on the impact of Chinese film production, a branch of Chinese culture.