First of all, the picture quality of the 1949 movie is very touching, but after all, Kurosawa Akira's movie is not a loss at all if you watch it patiently.
The movie is always in the style of Akira Kurosawa. It feels very similar to the Seven Samurai. It focuses on a small thing and sees the big from the small. After the defeat, the veteran Murakami became a criminal police officer. Due to fatigue, his pistol was stolen. As a rookie police officer, he was very anxious and nervous. In the process of searching for a gun, he went deep into the bottom of Japan and saw a lot of misfortune and pain.
Akira Kurosawa is especially good at portraying characters. Everyone in the movie conveys their different personalities through their every word and deed. Even the little characters who appear rarely have their own personalities, which will not give people the feeling of a tool man. . In film and television, the tool person attributes of small people will make people feel unreal. And this, Kurosawa Akira has done very well. As a rookie policeman + a veteran after the defeat, Murakami is nervous and anxious. His eyes are always alert, as if he is still on the battlefield, and he needs to pay attention to any troubles. What is interesting is that Murakami's heart is extremely sensitive and kind. He sees the suffering of the people at the bottom very uncomfortable, such as the criminal Yuzuo and the vain Chunmei. He can feel their pain and misfortune and sympathize with them. As a Chinese, I have to ask if he still has such sensitivity and kindness on Chinese soil. Sato, who is completely different from Murakami, is very relaxed. He interrogates the female repeat offender, eats ice cream with the female repeat offender, laughs together, and gets the information quietly, and he doesn't do this to anyone, he knows that only her mother is the most docile and stubborn person like Chunmei. Good interrogator. Sato is a formidable detective, shown not by the row of awards in his home, but by his casual intelligence. At the beginning, you will be suspicious of the detective who eats ice cream with the female habitual offender, but as the plot progresses, you will definitely be convinced by his wisdom, and will admit the awards in his family from the bottom of your heart. Due to their different environments and lives, female habitual criminals Ah Yin and Chunmei show completely different personalities. This completely different character is expressed from every sentence, expression and action of the actors. I feel that they are not actors, but real actors. characters in the play.
The plot unfolds little by little, which is very attractive. No scene or plot is useless, and the rhythm is very well grasped.
Japan after the defeat made everyone uncomfortable, depressed, and unable to lift their strength like the scorching hot weather. Before the defeat, Japan was so high-spirited, everyone had confidence in the country's victory and the determination to dedicate everything to the country's prosperity. Everything they did was prepared for the country's war. They are righteous. However, with as much hope comes as much disappointment. The defeat of the war has shattered the faith of many people. Before the defeat, they felt like they were in a great cause, and after the defeat, they found that they had nothing, and yet, life went on. After the defeat, they felt empty and lonely. At this time, no one went to investigate whether the war was just. They indulge in their grief and never think about their sins in China.
Compared to the oppressive and oppressive heat of the summer, China after the war should be much sadder than Japan. Our film and television in this area is still not enough. In the past two years, there are still quite a lot of war movies, and they have all come out of the circle, but there are still not enough people who look directly at the suffering of the people.
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