"One Life": One life and one death is a fate

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Japanese Warring States Period started by Oda Nobunaga was ended by Ieyasu Tokugawa and entered the Tokugawa Shogunate period. Not only did a large number of local governments shut down, but the warriors who lived by martial arts also collapsed and ran away. The ambitious samurai simply ended their hard life with a caesarean section but left their lives. Some lingering samurai resorted to "hypothetical caesarean section" to win the noble sympathy, get meager sponsorship and even take in them. One day, the samurai Qian Qianyan, who had a happy life, begged for a daughter. Because his wife and children were starving and sick, he was forced to carry out a "hypothetical laparotomy" with a bamboo knife in his hand, in exchange for 3 taels of miserable money. Unexpectedly, in order to put an end to such shameless tricks, the well-known masters who advocated the spirit of Bushido demanded that the fake show be true, and an urgent heart to save his wife and children in trouble went to the world with grievances. Looking at the family of three lying down in a pool of blood, making Lao Zhangren Jinyun Banshiro want to cry without tears, picking up the sword and rushing to the famous door for revenge became the last way out.

The film is adapted from the novel "Ibunruin" and remade from the 1962 black-and-white film "Cutting the Abdomen" directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is still produced on a 3D scale, which is a great memorial. The caesarean was supposed to be a heroic act done cleanly in one go. In the film, Qian Qianyan asked for a daughter to save his wife and daughter, but under the humiliation of everyone, he repeatedly stabbed himself with his short bamboo knife. Appreciating such an unbearable scene under the full eyes of everyone, this in itself has deviated from the true value of caesarean section. This proves that the leather armor that represents the spirit of Bushido that is enshrined is nothing but a false belief. When he was overthrown to the ground in anger by Tsumo Hanshiro, that sacred and inviolable aura vanished into nothing.

I haven't read the original version of "Cutting the Abdomen", there is no reference. Qian Qianyan's painful cesarean section in this film is deeply impressed, and even the path of the extremely sensational wife and daughter's illness is also deeply moving. Marveling at how poor they were so poor, a piece of cake was broken and eaten by two people. Even if two big men worked all day, they couldn't meet the basic survival needs. Even the cat with nine lives was in catastrophe. Perhaps the novel was a very critical subject of accusation back then. Even if it is now, the traces of struggle and criticism are shocking, and it is painful to think about why the true Bushido spirit exists. Perhaps, as in the dialogue in "Dolphin Bay", that is the manifestation of immortal militarism.

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