"Fifty years of life
compared to life and death
nothing but a dream
Husband was born in Sri Lanka
A famous name should live forever, always in the world.”
In 1970 and 1971, two films directed by Akira Kurosawa successively, "Trolley Mania" and "Poems of Horses", had poor box office and poor reputation.
In the following years, no film company in Japan was willing to take over the hot potato and invest in the filming of Akira Kurosawa.
The great director once fell from the altar, and his career fell to the bottom of a decade-long trough, during which he suffered from depression and attempted suicide twice.
In 1980, two American directors Francis and George Lucas came to Japan at a good time. They both admired Akira Kurosawa very much. The two made a decisive decision and decided to lend a helping hand to Akira Kurosawa to raise funds and invest. Filmed by Fox's investment in Japan's Toho Co., Ltd.
As a result, the epic masterpiece "Shadow Warrior", which cost billions of yen, was born, and won the Palme d'Or at the 33rd Cannes Film Festival in one fell swoop.
In this film, Akira Kurosawa's camera usage and soundtrack can be said to be unparalleled.
The opening long shot is full of weight, with a long shot of 6 minutes and 13 seconds. Takeda Shingen, the head of the Three Heroes in the Warring States Period, "Jiafei Tiger", sits firmly in the middle, and two people who look very similar to him are sitting on either side of him.
In terms of lighting effects, compared to the other two puppets, only Takeda Shingen has a tall and thick shadow behind him. Takeda Shingen's shadow not only represents his identity, but also shows that the core of the entire family is him.
This completes the establishment of the film's theme and the relationship between the main characters.
Everything about the camera, Akira Kurosawa showed the four-color army of "Fu Lin Volcano" with 11 quick shots.
At the end of the 16th century, during the Warring States Period in Japan, there were many heroes, among which Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, and Tokugawa Ieyasu were the most powerful.
Takeda Shingen was familiar with "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and created four armies of "wind, forest, fire, and mountains".
It aims to be "swift as the wind, as calm as the forest, aggressive as fire, motionless as a mountain, difficult to know as yin, and moving as thunder."
His lifelong pursuit is to go straight to Kyoto.
After experiencing the battle of Kawanakajima with Kenshin Uesugi and the battle of Sangahara with Tokugawa Ieyasu, he has established his most promising strength to unify Japan.
At this time, Xinxuan was at his peak, yearning for domination of the world.
At that time, Japan was in the Warring States Period, and life was like a dream of yellow lilies. It was precarious, and the life of a lord of a country was enough to affect the survival of his own people. Therefore, the lords looked for people with similar appearances in various places as their stand-ins. This kind of stand-in , they are called shadow warriors.
The same goes for Takeda Shingen. His younger brother Takeda Shinlian found the little thief who he thought was about to be executed. His appearance was very similar to Takeda Shingen, so he brought it back as a shadow warrior.
In 1572, Takeda Shingen led his troops to defeat the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and surrounded Ieyasu's possession of Noda Castle the following year. The time for success is imminent.
However, unexpectedly, Takeda Shingen was shot by a cold shot in a siege battle, and he was seriously injured and his life was at risk.
At a critical juncture, in order to prevent the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu from attacking, the minister of secret orders kept his mourning in secret for three years after his death, in order to stabilize the situation, and later died in the army.
Several retainers pretended to be Shingen as shadow warriors to stabilize the military, cover their eyes and ears, retreated smoothly, and deterred the tyrants such as Oda, Tokugawa, and Uesugi who were eyeing them.
Shadow Warrior was originally a thief. Even if he was brought to the Takeda family as a substitute for Takeda Shingen, in the initial stage, although his identity has changed in form, his inner personality and self have not been completely destroyed.
However, after a brief taste of power, the thrill of being admired by thousands of people and the incisiveness of scolding Fang Qiu, the consciousness of the "thief" gradually subsided, and the initiative of the "shadow" suddenly increased.
"Shadow" once stole from his own residence, and unfortunately found Takeda Shingen hidden in the urn and had been sealed with wax. Shadow warriors always thought that Takeda Shingen was alive and safe, but suddenly found that Shingen was dead, and his heart fell into extreme panic and struggle.
"Without the deity, does the stand-in still make sense?"
Later, when the Shadow Warrior saw Xinxuan's corpse urn sinking into the lake, he was discovered by three spies, which became the opportunity for the Shadow Warrior to change.
His heart was loyal to Takeda Shingen, and he knelt down by the lake and begged the ministers to continue to let him serve as Shingen's shadow warrior.
In that dream of a shadow warrior. At first, it was Takeda Shingen's figure who came out of the urn to chase him, but then the situation of the two changed and they became shadows chasing Shingen.
This switching of identities reveals the essence of the bandits' willingness to become "shadow warriors", and historical onlookers become participants.
The entire Takeda family has been functioning normally for three years, during which the Shadow Warrior also helped Takeda Katsurai to win the battle of Gaotian Shencheng.
A powerful family can run smoothly with a puppet, but the lost humanity no longer exists.
This situation lasted for three years, during which only Takeda Shingen's grandson Takemaru and his mount Black Cloud Colt saw through the shadow warriors.
Shadow warriors have deceived hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the enemy and countless eyes and ears, but they cannot deceive a child or an animal.
One day three years later, the shadow warrior fell from the black cloud colt in front of everyone. After his identity was exposed, Takeda Shingen's son Takeda Katsurai quickly seized the military and political power.
Living in the shadow of his father for many years, in order to prove himself eagerly, he violated his father's legacy of sticking to the territory and launched a large-scale general attack on the Tokugawa Nobunaga allied forces.
When the soldiers arrived at the lake where his father's body sank, the head of the Tianshui front-line department headed towards the sun. This was a bad omen. The ministers tried their best to discourage the retreating soldiers. Takeda Katsurai decided to continue the march.
In fact, Takeda Katsurai already knew in his heart that this march was more ominous than good luck, but because he had been oppressed by his father for many years, once he retreated in front of his father's ministers, he would lose his prestige.
He didn't want his father to die and live in his shadow.
Oda Nobunaga, who learned that the news of Takeda Shingen's death had been concealed for three years, sang "Fifty Years of Life" emotionally.
"Fifty years of life
compared to life and death
nothing but a dream
Husband was born in Sri Lanka
A famous name should live forever, always in the world.”
The decisive battle between the Takeda family and the Tokugawa Nobunaga coalition finally came. This battle was called the battle of Nagashino. Takeda Katsuyari ironically still adopted the "wind, forest, fire, and mountain" tactics that his father won half of the country.
The cavalry and infantry continued to attack the positions of the Tokugawa Nobunaga allied forces.
However, under the impact again and again, he was defeated by Oda Nobunaga's three-stage musket fire and horse fence tactics, and the entire army was annihilated.
There is a strong Homeric heroic romantic tragic.
The Battle of Nagashino was the first large-scale battle in Japanese history in which muskets played a decisive role in a battle.
After the battle of Changxiao, countless famous generals of the Takeda clan were killed in the battle, and the retainer group formed by Shingen himself was on the verge of collapse.
The shadow warrior watched as his "own" soldiers fell one by one, their blood red as if they were burning.
He grabbed a spear and charged alone, getting shot several times in his body.
He plunged into the icy blue water and looked at the banner of "Fast like the wind, quiet like a forest, swept like fire, motionless like a mountain". He tried desperately to grab it, but was suddenly caught in the throat by the hand of death, and fell to the ground.
The corpse of the Shadow Warrior just missed the flag in the ocean currents.
Like the sun rising and falling, like the waves of the sea.
This is Kurosawa Akira's regret for the passing of an era, and this is an elegy for an era.
The sword, light and sword shadow of the cold weapon era fell under the Western-style musket.
Along with the fall, there are things that are purely from the oriental spirit, family glory, power inheritance, responsibility, faith, and virtues such as righteousness, courage, benevolence, courtesy, sincerity, reputation, loyalty, and self-restraint. Spiritual belief in Bushido spirit.
Just like the years when Akira Kurosawa was in trouble, it slowly faded away, or even ceased to exist.
The demise of this spirit is most vividly reflected in Zhongdai Duff's other film, Cut the Belly.
In the end, what the shadow warriors went to chase was not something that could be fought, but a banner that represented the spirit and had nothing else. At this time, the shadow warrior became the real body.
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