Kihachi Okamoto has always been good at shooting war and samurai films. The difference is that the image of the samurai in his works is not like the kind of humanitarian-centric intellectual warfare written by Akira Kurosawa, or the feudal society described by Masaki Kobayashi. Here are pure political pawns. Instead, taking the samurai itself as the core, starting from the kendo interpretation, really photographed the soul of the samurai. This version of "Great Buddha Ridge" not only has the master of the screenwriter Hashimoto Shinobi, it can also be described as a gathering of famous film and television stars such as Nakadai Tatsuya, Kayama Yuzo, Mifune Toshiro, and the condensed construction of Okamoto Kihachi. It is enjoyable both inside and outside. sex. Thanks to Hashimoto Shinobu's handwriting, the film is conceived as complicated and intertwined with the contradictions of multiple value choices. The samurai's political mediation, the portrayal of growth, the ultimate pursuit of kendo belief, and even the artistic rendering of creating a mysterious mood. At the same time, it involves the political pattern outside the era, captures the humanities and folk customs, penalizes the political competition for the persecution of the samurai, and weaves the social ecology. From the objective environment and subjective choices, it describes how the samurai walked into the magic way, how to fight with destiny, and how to end the curtain bleakly. Ryunosuke is actually similar to the Yujiaolong in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". He is a lost person who escaped into the magic way in pursuit of the ultimate kendo. In addition, he was corroded by the social and political environment, and Confucianism and Buddhism were invisible to him. His kindness and compassion planted the cause and planted the bane of the fruit from the very beginning. Afterwards, Long Zhisuke continued to sink into the road of massacre, and he was out of control, and finally could not escape the criminal interrogation, facing the bite in the depth of the soul. However, what is dramatic is that reality did not give him enough time to apologize for his youth like Yu Jiaolong, desperately throwing himself into the abyss. In the political ups and downs, throughout the dark age, Ryunosuke couldn't control his own destiny, and he fell comically under the political conspiracy. The samurai's destruction of self-salvation also created the ultimate tragedy. It has always been based on the background of the end of the shogunate, including "The Attendant", "The Legend of the Shogunate Taiyo", and "Man Slash", etc., are inseparable from related political crimes. The political turmoil set off during the Meiji Restoration period is also a microcosm of the invasion of local civilization by Western civilization. Even the appearance of the musket symbolizes the end of the shogunate regime structure in the old era and is the final chapter of the samurai class. A character like Ryunosuke, even though he is evil, is always a projection of the way of the samurai, a sign of the samurai's decline. Therefore, his evaluation is multifaceted, and he is morally destined to accept sanctions from demonic souls. From a macro perspective, it is an inescapable fate. His tragedy also symbolizes the collapse of samurai idealism and the end of an era.
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