"Gate of Hell" tells the story of the Japanese samurai Sheng Yuan who fell in love with the wife of Watanabe Watanabe, the wife of the shogunate guard, after the Battle of Hirakang in Japan, and threatened the cassock with violence. The story is ostensibly a love movie with no absolute villain. Although Sheng Yuan tried to destroy other people's loving families in the movie, the movie began to portray him with integrity. He is just a reckless man who is dazzled by love, representing a stupid person who advocates violence to solve problems. This layer is what the film really wants to express. There are Buddhist colors in the film, the old man who sees through the world, the gate of hell, and the ending of Sheng Yuan's conversion. So people have to think that the names of Watanabe Watanabe and Kassa have this meaning. The cassock naturally needless to say, sacrifice himself to quell the violence. And Watanabe Watanabe is also a rational person. He shows tolerance in the film and is never influenced by anger. It is also his refusal to kill Sheng Yuan, and Sheng Yuan was admitted to Buddhism. Combining the background of the story, the wars continue, but the lives of the common people will not change. The gate of hell refers to the karmic fire of war, whether warriors or rulers, they are all people who advocate violence, and they fight for their own selfish interests. Among them are people like Sheng Yuan, who simply believe in their own so-called morality and despise their brother's betrayal behavior, but can't answer his brother's question. Why is World War II? Violence was never the way of the samurai.
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