Is the ending of ＂Camouflaged Couple＂ a rotten ending？

2025年6月25日 | admin | hfgjgh

Poster of Camouflaged Couple

The autumn Japanese TV series "Camouflaged Couples" starring Yuuki Amami and Itsuki Sawamura finally aired the tenth sentence last week and ushered in the grand finale of the whole drama. In the end, the words got a good rating of 12.8%, and the ratings of the whole drama did not fall below 10%, which once again proved the fact that even though the workload was reduced due to physical reasons, the high popularity of Queen Tianhai in the neon country could not be shaken.

Two online celebrity dramas, Camouflaged Couples, which are juxtaposed with Five to Nine, offer a stunt of "form marriage" to meet the topic of "marrying a monk" on September 9. Yuuki Amami plays Jia Menxun, a 45-year-old librarian who is still alive. Although she always smiles on the surface, she has the attribute of a barrage inside.

Whether it’s family, colleagues or complete strangers, they will be mercilessly whipped by the Queen. Jiamen, who has been studying alone for a lifetime and then died silently, met her ex-boyfriend Yangcun Chaozhi who took her virginity in college and left mercilessly one day. With a smile on his face, Chaozhi kept befriending Jiamen like no one else. Finally, he brazenly proposed marriage. It’s just that this engagement is a scam in every sense. First of all, he did this to comfort his mother who claimed to be terminally ill and was about to die. More importantly, Chaozhi has become an out-and-out gay man and doesn’t love women at all!

Stills of Camouflaged Couple, Itsuki Sawamura and Asuka Kudoh.

The story unfolds slowly on the premise of such a god. After a series of processes, in which the man acted as the master and slave until it seemed to be really straight, and the woman acted as the master and slave until the corner and then returned to straight, Jiamen and Chaozhi finally found that they cared about each other the most, so after they got married and divorced, they solemnly filled in their names on the marriage registration form again.

Unsurprisingly, the final finale of "Camouflaged Couples" was attacked by many netizens. It is not difficult to understand that everyone is so excited. Cass in "Camouflaged Couples" is really the best example of interpreting the slogan "A pair of lilies and a pair of bases" in recent two years. Needless to say, the striking and attractive combination of Queen Tianhai and Yuki Uchida, the "straight female terminator", once uncle Itsuki Sawamura and Asuka Kudoh, who is full of healthy and loyal dogs, are also on top of the world.

After the final words were broadcast, on Yahoo, Japan’s largest portal, the bad reviews of netizens even once pulled the score of the play below 3.0. And China’s Weibo is also a "told Kazuhiko Yukawa (the editor of this play) script will end badly" argument.

Stills of "Camouflaged Couple",Itsuki Sawamura and Yuuki Amami.

But in my opinion, The Camouflaged Couple is not 100% unfinished. First of all, Kazuhiko Yukawa, the screenwriter, said in an interview with Japanese media before the broadcast that there was no attempt to discuss "gender issues" in depth. His original intention was to show the other side of his muse Yuuki Amami, who was deeply resentful under his gentle appearance. Whether it is the excavation of the heroine Jiamen’s childhood experience and family relationship, or the climax setting of each episode, it has realized the good intention of Youchuan screenwriter to create scripts for Queen Tianhai.

On the other hand, I also think that behind the seemingly far-fetched turning point, "Camouflaged Couples" still carried out the discussion about marriage to the end.

In Japan, the biggest challenge to shoot a TV series with the theme of formal marriage may be that even ordinary couples look like formal marriage. Most Japanese couples sleep in separate rooms with conditions and in separate beds without conditions. The nine-to-five working hours and the notorious overtime system in Japan make it a luxury for the couple to meet each other on weekdays and say hello. But I also have to say that it is excellent to get married in Japanese society. In Japanese society, where the unmarried rate has hit a new high continuously after the war, it seems that people have really fallen into the logic that we can see in Japanese dramas: either they stay at home and don’t fall in love, even if they fall in love, they will not get married, and if they get married, they will not have sex. Only extramarital affairs will make love.

Under this premise, we urgently need film and television works that can seriously discuss the relationship between men and women and the true meaning of marriage. The completion of "Camouflaged Couples" in this respect is undoubtedly very high. Through the constant changes of the protagonists, the play first reveals the fact that gender roles are largely mobile. In the past two years, it seems that the momentum of both English dramas and American dramas is only "politically correct" to encourage everyone to be brave and "turn from straight to curved". But equally important, everyone may think from a bend or become straight, which is ignored by us intentionally or unintentionally. The final ending of The Camouflaged Couple undoubtedly reminds us of such a possibility.

Stills of "Camouflaged Couple"

Secondly, the marriage and divorce of the hero and heroine several times and the marriage and family relationship of a number of supporting actors also reveal some truths about marriage to us. The title of the play comes from menstruation of Jiamen: "In fact, aren’t all marriages disguised? Marry blindly only when you see each other’s benefits. As soon as they found each other’s shortcomings after marriage, they began to escape. "

More seriously, Engels also told us long ago that capitalist marriage is to preserve the illusion of private ownership and social stability. In the past, people always said, "If you are really together, why do you need a piece of paper to prove it?" But now it seems that this piece of paper really can’t prove anything. In the end, it is undoubtedly the biggest mockery of this system that Lijiamen and Chaozhi register for marriage, because they are not the ideal couple defined by society in any sense. But on the other hand, they are happier than any certified marriage. Perhaps only by starting from the origin of finding a "partner" in life can we find the original meaning of marriage.

Then again, the lack of positive expression of minorities in film and television dramas is indeed a problem that Japan has to look directly at. As a developed country with no religious burden, Japan first passed the so-called "same-sex partner regulations" in Shibuya District at the beginning of this year, which basically has no legal effect. As revealed in "Camouflaged Couples", even in Japan today, there are still citizens who are discriminated against in the workplace because of their sexual orientation. The pink signboard of "Five to Nine", which will be removed soon, still overlooks Shibuya, the most crowded intersection in the world. In Japan, monks can get married long ago, but there is still no legislation on same-sex marriage.

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