"Gohatto" is a subtle anti-Bushido film about the story of a beautiful samurai who joined the new writers group, causing the whole organization to fall into chaos due to undercurrents of eroticism. Nagisa Oshima boldly used Ryuhei Matsuda, letting its jade-like beautiful face play the ultimate work in the film, and presenting the bloody beauty of the samurai fighting very contagiously. The poetic and timeless pictures, the deep and misty soundtrack, and the coquettish homosexual atmosphere make the film feel like orchids
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The aesthetic principles of "Gohatto" are exactly the same as Mishima Yukio's novel "きんかくじ". Because of the inability to reach the beauty of the other shore, the heart of destruction was born. きんかくじ was burned because of being too perfect, and So Saburo was also murdered because of being too beautiful.
However, So Saburo's beauty is not kind. This is a beautiful young man entangled in evil, his cruelty spread under his perfect facial features, skin and body shape. There is a physical beauty in the world, full of double contempt for life and death. If you look at it from the perspective of human nature, it is both at the bottom and at the top of human nature. The top is the bottom, and the bottom is the top
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