Japanese suspense reasoning IP remake has become a craze. Who will be the next "suspect"?

Japanese suspense reasoning IP remake has become a craze. Who will be the next "suspect"?

The Dedication of Suspect X became the box office champion of Qingming domestic film.


After three days of Qingming, the overall film market rose. In the first two days, the overall market was over 200 million. The dedication of suspect X, which was released on March 31, became the box office champion among the four new films, and even broke the record of foreign language films occupying the single-day box office champion on the day of release. Now the overall box office has accumulated more than 200 million.


Classic Japanese mystery novel IP, popular actors, these elements have given the film enough heat, of course, the director Alec Su’s appropriate localization adaptation has made this film a word-of-mouth work in Qingming archives.


After this film, the mainland film market will soon attract a wave of Japanese best-selling mystery novel’s adaptation works. Xiao Dianjun will also have a detailed chat with you here to see who will be the next explosion!

The dedication of suspect x

Judging from the domestic market, even if you are not a fan of reasoning stories, I believe you will have heard the name of Keigo Higashino. With his rich imagination and unique writing style, this Japanese king of reasoning has created many best-selling works that even China readers can blurt out easily, and The Dedication of Suspect X is one of them.


The unpretentious style of writing, clever trick design and in-depth excavation of human nature, these elements together, greatly meet the needs of ordinary readers. The theme of mystery is marked with more emotion in Keigo Higashino’s works, which makes him the most popular mystery novelist in China. I believe he is also one of the "enlightened mentors" of many Japanese reasoning readers.


In addition to written works, the popularity of suspense reasoning writers represented by Keigo Higashino has also attracted more film investors’ attention to the charm of Japanese reasoning works — — If these works with high popularity and good content can be put on the big screen, wouldn’t they have more box office appeal?

The suspense and reasoning IP works of Japanese cinematography

In terms of film and television, Japan has actually explored this business opportunity early.Kotaro Isaka, Keigo Higashino, Seicho Matsumoto, Miyuki Miyabe and Soji Shimada.Many top japanese mystery’s works have been filmed. Among them, Keigo Higashino, whose script style is outstanding, has the most remake works.


In the past two years, the trend of "IP" is heating up day by day, and domestic film investors are constantly looking for new types of IP as a breakthrough. A film directed by Chen Sicheng in 2015 seems to ignite the hot spots of suspense and reasoning.

Detective chinatown.

The film was not optimistic at first, and the box office soared, and finally scored 820 million amazing results. In addition to the comedy label lineup led by Wang Baoqiang, the director’s unique idea of putting reasoning and suspense elements in the comedy shell is the biggest weapon to win word of mouth.


Among them, director Chen Sicheng introduced many tricks and story styles of Japanese reasoning masters into his works, and these classic logic games greatly enhanced the content of the film.This also confirms that detective, reasoning, suspense and other elements are still attractive to domestic audiences.

Under the promotion of multiple backgrounds, many domestic film and television companies began to buy the film and television remake rights of Japanese suspense reasoning works. The first shot was fired in the remake of "The Dedication of Suspect X" by Light Pictures.


Then, what Japanese suspense reasoning works will we see landing on the domestic screen? Xiao Dianjun will take stock of it for you today.

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