Behind the peak is often destruction

Devyn 2022-04-23 07:03:27

The Jiji Gua in the Book of Changes says,

On the sixth: Moisten his head, Li. The "Elephant" says, "How long can it take to moisten its head?"


Climbing to the top is difficult; maintaining the top is even more difficult; behind the top is often destruction.

This is a theme of the color work "Shadow Warrior" by Akira Kurosawa in his later years.


The lord Takeda Shingen, a Japanese military strategist in the Warring States Period, had won several victories before, and he could wipe out Tokugawa Ieyasu, move into Kyoto, and complete the reunification. sniper.

Takeda Shingen's stand-in (Shadow Samurai) - a poor thief, after finally getting familiar with the role, he fell and was exposed when he tried to ride the original owner's horse.

Even Oda Nobunaga, who won the battle, saw that he was about to unify the whole country, but was killed in Honnoji by the people around him.


Of course, when you are at the peak, you will be vigorous, otherwise how can you mark the peak?

In "Sun Tzu: Military War"

Therefore, it is as swift as the wind, as soft as a forest, invaded as a fire, motionless as a mountain, difficult to know as the shadow, and moved as a thunderstorm.

Rather than a strategy, it is more evidence and advertising slogans of the peak of the Takeda family.

This colorful scene of the big army, compared with the rapid collapse of the Takeda family later, highlights the inadvertent and rapid collapse after the peak.


Shadow Wu, in the end, is still shadow, phantom, the so-called success and fame are all fleeting.

What really remains is the long-term cycle of wins and losses.


In the film, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, has a long life and finally unified Japan and founded the Tokugawa Shogunate for two hundred years. However, in the end, the Tokugawa shogunate quickly disappeared after the black ship arrived. How long can it be.

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Extended Reading
  • Krista 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Black director's film - stinky and long. The popularity of this film is entirely due to the inexplicable sense of oriental ritual that fooled the foreign devils. In addition to clarifying the plot, the choreography of performance scenes (especially war scenes) is lackluster

  • Jean 2022-03-24 09:02:51

    Really explained: always imitated, never surpassed. Without naming names, it is said that a certain director and his works painting tigers are not anti-dogs. Anyway, Huang Shiro and Takeda Shingen are dwarfed by comparison.

Kagemusha quotes

  • Nobukado Takeda: I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing.

  • [the double's aides are worried that others will find out he is an impostor]

    Masakage Yamagata: Little Takemaru was a problem, but the horse is worse. It can tell. Only the late lord could ride it.

    Nobufusa Baba: If the double falls off, everyone will suspect.

    Nobukado Takeda: Lord Shingen has been ill. He must refrain from riding.

    Masakage Yamagata: Good idea.

    Masatane Hara: There are many other problems. We must be careful to keep the late lord's intentions.

    Katsusuke Atobe: Tonight he will have to meet the late lord's mistresses. How will he be with them?

    Masakage Yamagata: Our master has been ill. He must refrain from riding.