"An Yun" that was still panting at the time .
Production: Toho
Director: Kitamura Ryuhei
Starring: Ueto Aya
Time: 140 minutes
Plot: At the beginning of the Japanese Warring States Period, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the ruler of the world, but Toyotomi Some princes of Hideyoshi's faction had ambitions, and some secretly cultivated assassins, and the former military commander Kohata was the teacher of the assassins. Xiaoba adopts nine males and one female orphans and teaches them to become masters of fighting. An Yun is the only girl among them. One day, the hawker suddenly ordered them to divide into five groups to kill each other so that the winner could carry out the task with him. The young people had to die after being shocked, and An Yun also personally killed the brother who was in love with him. They realize that as an assassin, killing or being killed is a destiny that must be endured.
After Xiaoban and his party came out of the mountain, they encountered gangsters and bloodbathed the local residents in the small town. He was instructed to kill the three generals around Tokugawa, and the first target was Asano. With his youth and beauty, An Yun was able to approach Asano, who loves fishing, and beat him in one fell swoop. The crowd then ambushed the second target, Kato Kiyomasa, but under the full protection of Kato's ninjas headed by the flying monkey, they failed to succeed. Instead, one person was hit by a poisoned sword. After Kato escaped, he began to gather his strength to fight back. First, he found the three brothers Sashiki who took self-mutilation, and then released the bloodthirsty madman beauty pill in prison.
In the town where they settled, there is a quagmire performing Chinese acrobatics. The heroines Yahui and Anyun hit it off at first sight, and fell in love with Anyun's senior brother Xiaoqiao at first sight. The troupe encountered the three Sashiki brothers while moving. All but Yahui were killed. An Yun and others passing by took action and shot the three Sashiki brothers to death. Faced with the poisoned and ill disciple, Ota decided to abandon him. An Yun and the others had a dispute with Master for the first time, and even drew their swords at each other. Xiaoba angrily declared that An Yun and Xiaoqiao were no longer assassins, and led the other two to leave. Xiaoqiao promised Yahui to send her back to her hometown, but met the beauty pill, who was dressed in women's clothing, had a knife in each hand and a rose, and Xiaoqiao was defeated and died. It was too late for An Yun to arrive. Yahui asked An Yun to go with her, and for the first time to put on makeup and feminine clothes for her, An Yun seemed to have restored the girl's splendid nature. In the night, some robbers grabbed their intent to rape, An Yun resisted and killed them all. She realized that "killing is her destiny", and only fighting with a knife is her life.
Oba and his disciples assassinated Kato, fell into a siege, wounded and captured. An Yun rushed to the enemy line of hundreds of people alone, killing Meiwan Maru, but Xiaoba was amazing. An Yun pursued the escaped Kato until he was assassinated at sea, and held revenge for the master and the seniors.
Review: Japanese film critics have also begun to discuss the recent "wave of period dramas". After last year's "Kyobei at Twilight" became the big winner of the Academy Awards, two more period dramas were rarely confronted in the spring and summer of this year. The scene is the "Devildom Reincarnation" and this "An Yun" that this magazine has introduced. The two films are not only very close in terms of schedule, but also in terms of content, with the first goal of paving commercial elements. As of June 21st, "An Yun" has basically finished painting in Tokyo. From the box office point of view, "An Yun" may surpass the larger investment "Makai Tensei". There are two main reasons for the lead, one is "An Yun" "Cloud" is adapted from the 8 million manga of the same name. The heroine Ueto Aya is one of Japan's most popular beautiful girl stars. She has a large number of fans and fans, so the movie tickets sold before the movie is released can be sold. Excellent; secondly, after the trial screening of the film, it received a lot of praise from the media. This word-of-mouth has greatly promoted the publicity.
In fact, the biggest common feature of "Devil Reincarnation" and "An Yun" is to emphasize the form of expression and neglect the inner meaning. To put it bluntly, it emphasizes coolness, novelty and dazzling in visual effects, and uses a lot of special effects photography and CG. Production (compare, "Makai Tensei" has more CG production because of its supernatural colors). As for the story, it doesn't matter what the story is about. This is very different from Yamada Yoji's "Seihei at Twilight". However, this is also an inevitable result of the era drama in the new era of rapid technological advancement. "The Tale of Genji: Thousand Years of Love" as early as the year before last showed the efforts of Japanese filmmakers to create more perfect classical images with the help of new technology.
If the content of "An Yun" can be summarized briefly, it is violence, violence, or violence. The length of "An Yun" reaches 140 minutes, and the fighting scene is about 110 minutes, and the blood-splattered fight runs through. Not long after the characters appeared on the stage, the corpse was on the spot, reminiscent of the common raging in Wen Lian's martial arts novels. The cost of artificial plasma in the film is almost like rain, and the face of Aya Ueto is often splashed with blood. As for the "dead" characters in the film, it is even harder to count. Director Kitamura Ryuhei is only 34 years old. He is a representative of the younger generation of Japanese cinema who is good at action movies. He himself seems to be quite ambitious. In his self-evaluation of the work, he mentioned Jet Li’s "action show" movie, saying that it lacks lifelike murderousness, and what he wants to make is an action movie that truly shows the struggle between life and death. However, this may just be the self-respect of young people. Because a 17-year-old girl can fight against the enemy with a knife and kill hundreds of powerful enemies in a row, without losing the beauty and cool appearance, I am afraid it is more suitable for the definition of "action show", he even set the film photography A standard: "Everything must revolve around how to make Aya Ueto guarantee beauty." Just relying on plasma and big scenes does not necessarily mean murderous.
Although Kitamura Ryuping has a slight remark on Hong Kong-style action design, it is impossible for him to be unaffected in the context of Hong Kong-style martial arts that is popular all over the world. In the film, Kato Kiyomasa's escort flying monkey and Ohata's ninjas have a chase and fight up and down the house in the dark, and it can be seen that the influence of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is obvious. Although the time is a little short, the flying ape chasing the ninja on the roof can't help but remind people of Yu Xiulian chasing the jade dragon. Of course, Kitamura Ryuping also came up with some new tricks with his own characteristics. For example, An Yun and Belle Maru are tumbling and fighting on a wooden board in mid-air. Kitamura Ryuhei used a special camera to take a vertical 360-degree lens that was rotated three times to create a strong sense of dazzling movement. This camera is in Japan. There is only one in the country.
Martial arts in period dramas are indispensable, so action designers similar to the Hong Kong martial arts group are also needed. They are called "killing formations" in Japan, but they generally do not directly participate in the performance or production of the film, but only serve as professionals. Pure motion consultant. "An Yun" is a work that more comprehensively shows the face of Japanese film martial arts, in this sense, it is worth seeing. The main weapon in the play is the Japanese sword, which can be regarded as the exquisite cold weapon. The swordsmanship has the most battle scenes. Aya Ueto has practiced the swordsmanship for a month. Compared with the martial arts of Chinese-language movies, Japan's viewing ability is definitely poor, but the actions are not particularly fancy, and even have a little practicality. In short, audiences who have a special love for martial arts dramas may wish to learn about Japanese fighting skills through "An Yun" and other period dramas, and it is more interesting to compare it with Chinese movies. The passage of An Yun alone into the enemy camp can be compared with Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung’s entry into the Qin Guards lineup in "Hero". Of course, no matter which one is just a fiction of the movie, it is impossible in the meat broadcast of the cold weapon era. There are really supermen who count on one hundred and thousands.
Speaking of the theme of the film, On the one hand, "An Yun" emphasizes the perseverance and death in Bushido (not only to oneself, but also to other people's lives), almost crazy loyalty and sense of responsibility. This is the core idea of many Japanese samurai movies. The most typical is the period drama classic "Forty-seven Assassins in the Loyalist Collection" that has been remakes time and time again. On the other hand, "An Yun" is also enough to be regarded as one of the "feminist" movies that have been popular in East Asia in recent years, with strong women over men as the plot feature. Ueto Aya's performance in the film is indeed also reminiscent. The previous "My Underworld Wife" or "Sunset Angel", and these two films have just been released in Japan. For East Asian women’s social and cultural status traditions, the popularity of such films should become an important phenomenon worthy of research. Taking "An Yun" as an example, the fast response of female and male audiences in the theater is different, and there seems to be a certain connection among them.
The cast of "An Yun" is relatively strong. Although 17-year-old Ueto Aya is the only idol, the performances of several young and middle-aged male actors reveal their acting skills. Naoto Takenaka, the mainstay of the middle-aged Japanese film actor, plays the cunning and fearful death of Kato Kiyomasa in the film, and the 27-year-old Odakiri plays the bloodthirsty and feminine killer beauty Maru. They are in "Shall We Dance?" and "Bright Future" respectively. Compared with the modern people who are ups and downs in the mediocre daily life, they fully reflect the rich plasticity of their acting skills.
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