When the shadow warrior was wiped out, he stepped on the corpse alone and rushed to the enemy. In the end, his blood-stained body floated on the sea, ending this humorous and cruel story.
Takeda Shingen, the head of the Three Heroes in the Warring States Period of Japan, is known as the "Tiger of Jiafei". His creed is "as fast as the wind, as gentle as the forest, aggressive as fire, immobile as a mountain", that is, "wind forest and volcano". When Takeda Shingen besieged the Tokugawa army's Noda Castle and was about to take Kyoto directly to complete his hegemony, he was hit by the enemy's sniper rifle and was seriously injured and was on the verge of death. Before his death, he left a will to his subordinates to conceal the news of his death for three years. Because once the news of his death is known to the world, his team will be demoralized, and the enemy's morale will be high. Coincidentally, at this time they caught a thief who should have been sentenced to death, but because he looked exactly like Xinxuan, the thief was lucky enough to save his life and became Xinxuan's stand-in, the "Shadow Warrior". to maintain people's hearts and confuse the enemy. The enemy sent two monitors who were also bewildered by the shadow warriors, thinking that Shingen was still alive and healthy. Next, the film spends a lot of time telling the life of the shadow warriors in court. He went from a low-level person to instantly become the son of heaven above ten thousand people, and everyone looked up to him, and his wives and concubines were in groups, so it was not beautiful. But this is also ironic, he is actually a puppet without any real power. The words he said and the decisions he made were the will of his ministers. His desire to be happy with his wives and concubines was also politely stopped by the minister... The meaning of his existence is just to talk and stand up. But he also gradually developed a sense of identity in his day-to-day interaction and life. And under his "leadership", the army won several victories, which made him more and more into the role... He lived like a duck to water under a false identity, but when he was complacent, he was injured when he fell off his horse, When he was healed, the truth was revealed because he didn't have Shingen's scar on his body. At this time, he was expelled from the city, who was no longer worth using, and turned back into the real body of a desolate thief. The enemy also knew that Shingen was already dead, so they started the final battle. The thieves secretly followed the army to the battlefield because of their sense of identity, but their weak combat effectiveness and slack fighting spirit were vulnerable under the enemy's fire, and the entire army was wiped out in an instant... The thieves also died in this undead belong to his battlefield.
In the war scenes in this film, Akira Kurosawa's use of color is full of magic. The red sky, the purple-black sky, the ever-changing colors and firelight make the battlefield like hell. This can't help but remind people of the nuclear explosion of Mount Fuji in "Dream" and the scene of human mutation after being contaminated by radiation. And the nightmare the Shadow Warrior had was just as wonderful.
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