A Dream of Red Mansions in Japan

Collin 2022-04-19 09:02:13

Edo is similar to the late Qing Dynasty. Bushido has been as false as Confucianism. It is true and false. It is full of benevolence and morality. Without the samurai, the samurai is a piece of skin. Without the behavior of the samurai, there is no existence of the samurai, because the samurai is the existence of the samurai itself. When there are more and more fake samurai, the real samurai is ridiculed by others, and eventually extinct. It's Bushido behavior. So, can Bushido be resurrected? Mishima Yukio's death was Bushido behavior, but no one recognized him as a samurai, because he was not a samurai, so his Bushido behavior was not recognized. When a society is no longer excited about the behavior of Bushido, Bushido completely perished. Since modern people cannot become a samurai, how can they behave according to the rules of samurai? If the ideal tells us how to die, life is in time Teaching us how to live all the time, Bushido's behavior can only be the product of a perverted psychology in the end.

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  • Joelle 2021-12-22 08:01:08

    The story of Nakadai Tatsuya made me think he was an ancient version of petitioning. What really touched me was the defender of the order of the times, like the old man, who endured everything with a conscience. The tone of the final monologue was really good. Kobayashi really likes to describe death with a 30-degree angled lens, which makes him feel dizzy.

  • Gerardo 2022-04-23 07:02:33

    When watching the movie, it feels like the heart is being held by someone's hand, as if it were hanging in the air. I want to find someone to go to McDonald's for one night and talk about this movie all night. I am puzzled. I will describe the oriental aesthetics contained in Japanese samurai films in detail. I am also eager to hear more about the relationship between Bushido and human nature, and I want to be cold-blooded. To dissect the death ritual of 'cutting the abdomen', its beauty, dignity, contradiction, or even hypocrisy?

Hara-Kiri quotes

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: Swordsmanship untested in battle is like the art of swimming mastered on land.

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: The suspicious mind conjures its own demons.