A good movie with deep love and shallow sadness can always bring people a kind of aftertaste. It doesn't have to have a complicated and tense storyline, it doesn't have to be a grand scene. Seeing delicacy in the simple and feeling great in the ordinary are the characteristics that a good movie should have. The Japanese movie "Twilight Seibei" is undoubtedly a good movie in this category. It was shot in 2002, but the director chose to use black and white scenes to give the illusion of the 1950s. Simple narrative structure, ordinary storyline, but unconsciously left us a faint aftertaste. The protagonist Kiyobei gets off work on time every day at dusk, and goes home to take care of his sick wife. He never eats and drinks like his colleagues. Later, his wife died of tuberculosis. In order to hold a decent funeral for his wife, Qingbei sold the samurai sword that symbolized his identity. Because of poverty, he wears tattered clothes to get off work every day, and he is even ridiculed by his colleagues because of the stench on his body. Because his wife died prematurely, he had to take care of his daughter alone, as well as his bedridden mother. His good friend Iinuma's younger sister, Tome, divorced because of her husband's rudeness. She often came to Seibei's house to help him clean up the house and take care of the children. Qingbingwei and Pengjiang have been fond of each other since childhood. When Iinuma came to propose marriage to Qingbingwei, he was rejected by him. Because he didn't want to drag Pengjiang down because of poverty. From then on, Pengjiang never came to Qingbingwei's house again. One night, Seibei was urgently summoned by the feudal lord and ordered him to fight the first-class swordsman Eemon. Although Qingbingwei repeatedly refused, he was forced to fight against the swordsman Uemon. Before leaving, he asked Pengjiang to hand him over to groom and change his clothes, and proposed to Pengjiang, but Pengjiang had already agreed to another marriage. So Qingbingwei embarked on a duel road of life and death. The story is simple, but it leaves us a lot to think about. At the beginning of the story, my daughter was reciting "The Analects of Confucius". She asked her father, I have learned needlework and can make kimonos, but what is the use of reading? Qingbingwei thought about it and said that reading can make you learn to think. Thinking can keep you alive. Such details show that the Japanese attach great importance to Chinese traditional culture, and even a primary school student can recite the Analects of Confucius. But as a native Chinese, how many people have read the Analects? Although Qingbingwei was a low-level samurai, he was a first-class swordsman. In order to make a living, he stayed in the country and lived a poor life, but without the duel with Tomoe's husband Toyotaro, no one knew that he would be a high-level swordsman. The master is in the folk. He doesn't show anything, just wants to live a peaceful life. He had to take part in a duel later, to a large extent Also, with the promise of the lord to raise his salary, he wanted to change his life and welcome Pengjiang. The film also reveals the humble love of little people. A low-level samurai only has a salary of 50 shi. Although he is full of love for a 200 shi family of Pengjiang, he does not dare to marry and live together. Poor couples mourn for everything. Love does not have material life as a premise, and in the end there is only incomplete love. As I described in the movie "Cut the Belly". Qian Qianyan begged her daughter to be unable to support her family. For the sake of her sick child, she not only sold her samurai sword, but was also forced to commit suicide.
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