"赤ひげ" is a long film full of or full of excessive humanitarianism. Wind Man tries to describe the hospitals in the Edo period and the doctors and patients in them. Those patients continue to die and leave. Wind Man is compassionate. Thoughts leaped on the screen. Toshirô Mifune's 赤ひげ is more of a spiritual help to patients, and Wind Man's demand for details proves that he is a person who will commit suicide if he fails to do his own directing work. This is a terrible state. That is the error of the times. The structurally tense doctor-patient relationship does not lie in the dedication of a few people, but it is a kind of fire, and Wind Man gives people hope
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"赤ひげ" is not a samurai movie in the strict sense. Although "赤ひげ" is a doctor, he has the temperament of a samurai, like a knight. As a doctor, you should first have a benevolent heart, but after being provoked by a group of hooligans, he decisively uses force. The benevolence and chivalry of Akasaka are very much like the demonstrations and conflicts of the Japanese nationals.
Chikaki was also a reformer who changed the outdated medical system at the time. Akagi’s reforms can be seen as a movement to “renovate the local government” in Japan in the 1960s. The various patients and the harsh living environment that appear in the movie are actually a reflection of the real society.
Chi Kaka not only "cured" diseases, but also "healed people". It can be said that he was Lu Xun during the shogunate period. He bluntly said that many diseases are caused by poverty and ignorance in the society, and there is no way for medical skills to do this. The shogunate society in the movie highly overlaps with the real Japanese society, and the prosperity of the upper class is in sharp contrast with the poverty of the lower class
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The heroic image in "赤ひげ" is very bizarre. The background is completely abstract, far away from any era and social background, and becomes a hospital that can happen in any time and space. The protagonist, "Chi Kaka", not only helps the poor and fights against evil forces, but even has a very powerful martial arts, which can defeat more than a dozen people by one person. This is exactly like the "wuxia myth" in Chinese movies. Wind Man has been unable to interpret his chaotic heroes in this film. Heroes must be completely humanized and mythologized not only in morality but also in ability, otherwise they cannot change the overall situation
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