"Kagemusha" is to some extent a portrayal of the director's five-year creative dilemma. He feels that he is not in tune with the times, and the old traditions are no longer recognized. There is deep sadness in it. He injected this kind of sentiment into "Kagemusha". The spears and cavalry of the Takeda army were compared with the muskets of the Oda army. The attendants who were killed by the muskets to protect the Kagemusha were about to die with the sword. Implying the passing of a glorious tradition, the honor of the samurai and the principles of the samurai world are vulnerable to modern weapons, "Kagemusha" is like a sad elegy to the end of the samurai world written by Wind Man. In this movie, Wind Man is more obsessed with letting the audience feel the disappearance of the samurai world and the beauty contained in it. He hopes that the beauty of this world will continue, even if he sees that all of this is unrealistic under the light of the dawn of the world. (
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Wind Man's late masterpiece "Shadow Warrior" is often used by "symbol" scholars to "disassemble". The famous line "The master is dead, where should the shadow stand-in go?" It is regarded as both the "echo of the desire to die" and the declaration of the "desire of life". Michel Menir of France, Stephen Prince and James Caldwin of the United States have put the sensitive "spirit of Bushido" on the agenda. "Bushido spirit is always a contradiction to Wind Man. In his works, he tries to re-establish the humane side of the samurai spirit; but at the same time, he dares to face the other side of it being destroyed by the alienation of militarism and abandoned by the people. The two emotions interact with each other. Twisting, one ebb and flow, became Wind Man’s unique Bushido complex, and also became the driving force for him to continue to live.” (
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This film is not so much about how a humble person becomes noble, but about how a noble person can influence and even change others with his nobleness after his death. (
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Wind Man, known as the "Shakespeare of the film industry" by American director Spielberg, uses magnificent momentum, rich colors, tit-for-tat confrontation and conflict, and unique image modeling to show the audience the pain, madness and desire of life. , Destruction, joy, liberation, warmth, perplexity and other scenes, deeply and ruthlessly dissected and displayed the human soul. (
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