A journey that begins at dark

A person’s dusk is the most easily forgotten part of life. It is mixed with people on the way to and from get off work, and the cramped car is shaking and dozing off. Some light and shadows hurriedly pass from the thin left face and dissipate in the The dark back of a building. The whole time of that day, in this short moment, seemed extraordinarily hesitant and sluggish, as if seeing the tunnel of the night in front of him, drown out all the complicated emotions that were too late to salvage. A low-level samurai named Iguchi Kiyobei ​​was dubbed by his colleagues as a man as tired as dusk. In fact, he was just an ordinary office worker who sat in our back seat and fell asleep, a sick wife who died early, and a demented man. The old mother, and a pair of young daughters who should have been innocent and carefree. He is not a well-dressed white-collar worker, haggard and lethargic, you even think he is a little dirty, leaning against the car window, causing a slight dust to fly. Such a twilight is neither early nor late, and at an appropriate time, the capacity and length of a movie will be left alone.

This is a relatively unusual Japanese samurai that I have seen. Although the shogunate period more than 100 years ago is still an era that cannot be clearly recognized, I don't know which kind of Yuelu fifty stone rice belongs to. The working class, but the Japanese Bushido, which has always used chrysanthemums and swords to symbolize the aesthetics of violence, seems to have only a faint warm and powerless sunset on the body of Qingbingwei. Akira Kurosawa should be regarded as the first major director to promote Japanese samurai movies to the international film circle. From "Rashomon", "Spider Nest City", "Shadow Samurai" to "Ran", you can feel a sharp exist. Although Kikuchiyo in "Seven Samurai" is a simple and honest farmer, carrying a samurai sword on his back like a hoe, there is still a myth of creating heroes in it. of the explosion. "Ronin Street", directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Yoshio Harada, is similar to Linghu Chong in "Swordsman", cynical, laughing and naughty, but Araki source has a bit more bandit, and looks more like a desperate wanderer Chinese. The "Red Shadow" directed by Hiroyuki Nakano is a legendary masked ninja who is haunted by ghosts. I think of Tsui Hark's "Shushan Biography", which is a sequel. The special effects cover up the emotional expressions of the usual characters. In the air where the ninja disappears, a scene is suddenly born. Small fireworks show.

Yoji Yamada is a Japanese director who is as famous as Shinji Fukasaku and Nagisa Oshima. My impression of him is still in "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness", "The Call of the Distant Mountain", or the "Story of Torajiro" series. A civilian director of grassroots complex. "Happy Yellow Handkerchief" was filmed in Yubari, Hokkaido. The yellow handkerchief originated from such a story. A husband who had traveled for many years was finally returning to his hometown. He sent a letter to his wife. If you welcome him back, please ask Tie a yellow handkerchief to the oak tree in front of the door. Because of this film, the annual Yubari Film Festival started there. I remember Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Name of the Rose of the Millennium Mambo" directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien in 2001. There is a story that Shu Qi left her stalking boyfriend and went to Yubari. The snowy weather also happened to catch up with the film festival. The snow-covered streets are littered with huge movie posters. The shooting of "Twilight Seibei" is said to have fulfilled Akira Kurosawa's biggest movie wish, but I still have no way to connect the two directors with completely different styles. If Akira Kurosawa personally re-directs the tube, will it continue the suspense and guesswork of "Rashomon", or the gorgeous and huge "Ran"? The two main lines of the film are the emotional entanglement between Qingbingwei and his childhood girlfriend, Pengjiang, who was ordered to hunt down the rebel swordsman Yugo Zenemon. " is in a dilemma. The restrained, taciturn, and timid Kiyobei ​​can't talk about a vigorous love, nor can he fully exercise the cruel blood of a samurai. Xinci softly pushed open a door of release.

The usual samurai movies are exaggerated simulations of chaotic history. Takeshi Kitano's remake of "Zatoichi" is likely to be the magical blind man circulated in folk oral literature, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" ", in his personal opinion, is the weird grafting of Hong Kong martial arts movies and Japanese samurai movies. It was Tom Cruise who had the greatest ambition, trying to end the volleyed sword in everyone's dreams with "The Last Samurai". "Twilight Kiyobei" is one of the opposites among these peers. He is a killer who does not want to kill, a father who is rushing home to take care of his children, and a cowardly man who does not dare to fall in love with others directly. At the beginning of the movie, in the memories of his daughter, he is a gentle father who is trapped in life and unable to do anything. The long-unfamiliar but very familiar Yamada Yoji-style family man smell is once again in the way of a costume movie. Interpretation of the suffering and exhaustion of all men in reality. Akira Kurosawa's wish can only be realized through his own "Dream", the unrealistic sun rain, peach blossom demon, waterwheel village, the fox fairy team welcoming relatives, the soldiers who died and returned to their souls, fill a large number of color blocks in one The old man has some old childhood dreams that turned white and yellow in his memory. Yamada Yoji is only responsible for the trivial troubles other than dreams, the mental stress that cannot be filtered out, the neglected daily life behind a samurai, and the simulated history that still has some realistic records that must be actually performed.

This man like Twilight was eventually killed in the frequent wars as a samurai. In the film narrative of the past tense, it is affirmed that he is still a father image. He hurried home from work and had no time to socialize with his colleagues, drinking and having fun. Apologetically, he withdrew to the door, hesitated for a moment on those mocking faces, lowered his head and walked his own way. Everyone was shouting his nickname Twilight Kiyobei ​​behind him, but he just wanted to go home as soon as it was getting dark.

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