A Princess and an Ambitious Young Man: One Black Comedy Scenario

 

 

 

This series of events between Mako and Komuro is undoubtedly a black comedy.

 

For example, the following story would be interesting as fiction:

In Japan, there was a boy who was raised by a greedy mother who collected money at any cost, and grew up to be just as upwardly mobile. He happened to be the same age as the Japanese princess, and since they were enrolled in the same university, he took advantage of the opportunity to seduce her and promised to marry her.

 

The princess was fed up with her mother who nagged and harassed her staff every day and her father who was always on his wife's back, and wanted to leave the imperial family as soon as possible. Her love affair with "him," who is a graduate of an international school and is fluent in English, was a great opportunity for the princess to escape from the IF and Japan.

 

However, after the unofficial announcement of the engagement, scandals of his mother and "he" himself were exposed one after another. But the princess never gave up on the marriage, and sent him to New York to study. The princess entrusted him with the fairy tale of a prince who would come for her after he had studied hard and become a lawyer in New York.

 

The young man also wanted to marry the princess and rise through the ranks, so he did as the princess asked and studied hard, but he was not good enough. He had never studied law in Japan and did not have a lawyer's license, so there was a limit to how much he could learn even if he was allowed to wear clogs.

 

The "royal power" helped him get his clogs everywhere, and he was given various commendations and favors, but it couldn't shake the results of his bar exam, which was related to the judicial system of a nation...

 

And thus, while he thought he was picking up a princess, he actually became the  marionette of the princess's unrealistic dreams. He is exhausted because he is forced to play a role that is not his size.

This is somewhat like a horror story, but it is certainly a kind of romantic comedy.

 

On their wedding night after the "wedding conference of the century," he finally confesses to the princess, "In fact, I couldn't finish college, and I can't even pass the bar exam." Beethoven Symphony No. 5. Also, the princess's bearded father and Noh-mask-like mother, who believed that they can control everything,  completely paled  at the prince's unexpected failure.

Well, where will the young couple go from now on?

 

The mainstream Western media (even the ones traditionally read by the intelligentsia), which praised him as a brilliant prince on a white horse and the princess as a "symbol of imperial freedom," enlivened this marriage frenzy.

They were complete clowns, including the pundits who had been extolling the virtues of Komuro and Mako.

 

(This is just a story that I would like to see made into a movie or drama on Netflix, not that I'm saying that's the reality. And who will direct this film?)