Please help identify pen and nib variant/size

[2ouvenir]

At 22:15, 33:25 and various points in the following video the detective uses a fountain pen, and I wonder what pen and nib variant he is using (Fude? Bent? I am not very familiar with nib variants beyond stub and round). Thanks!

 

 

P.S. An interesting drama, just started watching!

[A Smug Dill]

Between the movement of the pen, and that the focus of the lens is on the writing and not the nib, beyond saying it's an ‘open’ style bent nib 弯尖 — aka ‘art’ nib 美工尖, or ‘fude’ nib but only Japan-oriented folk call upturned bent nibs that, from the Japanese word for (calligraphy) brush pen, while the Chinese don't — and most likely gold-plated steel as opposed to solid gold.

[2ouvenir]

@A Smug Dill Thanks for the quick reply!

 

At 33:40 I can see a fluted end section and a transparent mid-section, possibly piston filler. 

[A Smug Dill]

20 minutes ago, 2ouvenir said:

At 33:40 I can see a fluted end section and a transparent mid-section, possibly piston filler. 

 

Yes, but that's a different pen. That pen has a silver-coloured (polished steel?) nib on it with no bend at the tip. A piston-filler with an ink window and a screw-cap. I think the flaring at the end of the grip section is different for the two pens, too.

[2ouvenir]

@A Smug Dill Oh true. 

[2ouvenir]

It seems like everyone in this show is using fountain pens... even the students. E.g. at 6:53:

 

 

I've never seen a show before with that many fountain pens being used. It's almost as if the show is being sponsored by a fountain pen company or something.

 

[Prof Drew]

@2ouvenir,

I watched two episodes. Quite the show. It is fascinating to imagine what life in the PRC was like at the turn of the century, and to think of so many changes in the past two dozen years. The fountain pen scenes were certainly something. 

 

I imagine that even then fountain pens were not so common anymore in the countryside, and that the director is trying to suggest that they are kind of intellectual or Luddite.  I wonder if they are so major in the book it's based on.

[yaju]

On 7/29/2024 at 11:12 PM, 2ouvenir said:

At 33:40 I can see a fluted end section and a transparent mid-section, possibly piston filler. 

 
That pen might be a Hero 856