The practice of samurai

Korey 2022-01-09 08:01:15

Tsubaki Sanjuro is a brother story of Intentional Stick. Intentional Stick is a movie where justice defeats evil. At first, I admired it very much. In the following days, I occasionally recalled two corresponding clips: At the beginning, the farmer’s son quarreled with his parents to be a thug for the sake of wealth; When the protagonist kills the last person, he realizes that he was the son of a farmer who had met before, let him go and let him go home. Do other thugs who died also have this fate? There are also parents waiting for them at home, or there are wives and children. When they were deceived by desire and became thugs, they would have to die at the cost? How can I bear it in this way. And this town will continue to have wicked people in the future, and the protagonist is not there? Are there other towns exploited by the wicked? Even if you kill all the wicked now, it will still happen in the future. I am not in favor of killing all the wicked to achieve justice. The solution that came up at that time was to emerge a saint to enlighten, correct bad habits, and improve moral standards. From the root, people don't like to do evil, like good ones, so no evil people will arise, establish laws and regulations, and so on. Later, I thought that this kind of thing was done long ago. Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Jesus, etc., really made some people do not like doing evil, like good and other functions, but you see, from their later history, they found wicked people. There are still many, you can see from the history of China. Evil and good are a person's personal choice. Many people who have studied the Analects of Confucius remain indifferent and continue to be evil. When Jesus was killed, he said at that time: Forgive them, they don't know what they are doing. Tsubakihiro will always kill the wicked in the face of evil people. He meets the madam, and the wife tells him: Don't kill. He wakes up and kills only when necessary. In the end, the general manager exploited the two corrupt officials and let them go back to be farmers. When a corrupt official faced failure, he committed suicide by cutting his belly. He didn't expect that he would have a good end as a farmer. The general manager and his wife treat the world with love. Jin Yong’s novels have also discussed this. Often the good guys let go of the bad guys, and they are harmed by the bad guys. This writing is worse than that of Kurosawa. In Jin Yong's novels, when the good guys let the bad guys go, the power of both parties is equal, and the good guys tend to relax when they are good guys. Can't they be succeeded by the bad guys? In Kurosawa's film, there is an absolute power difference between good people and bad people. A white blade with no sheath hidden, sharp, but dazzling. With a sheath, the edge is hidden. The swordsman who finally duel with the protagonist has a high martial arts and full of strategy. It was his first such serious failure. He could not accept it. Find the protagonist to fight. The protagonist reminded him that these were far better than No life, he insisted in the end, and was killed in the end. The protagonist's heart is agitated, and he judges that he and himself are nothing The white blade of the sheath is too exposed and easy to break. There was a hidden master who was the manager. He secretly searched for evidence of corruption by corrupt officials without showing up. When the evidence was complete, he would arrest the corrupt officials, but was disrupted by those few swordsmen who didn't understand. A sword with a sheath hides its edge without revealing its edge. In the end, the manager also reviewed that he was arrested because of his lack of prestige, and did not blame the outside world, but realized his lack of cultivation. In the end, the nine swordsmen applauded the protagonist because he was their master. They learned from him the strategy, skills, loving life, and lack of sharpness that a real samurai should possess. They and the protagonist have made progress. This is a personal practice movie.

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Sanjuro quotes

  • Sanjûrô Tsubaki: He was just like me. A drawn sword that wouldn't stay in its sheath. But, you know, the lady was right. The best sword is kept in its sheath. You'd better stay in yours.

  • Sanjûrô Tsubaki: You tired of being stupid yet?