The animated film "Wolf" was written by Mamoru Oshii and directed by Kiyuki Okiura. In January 1999, the first International Fantasy Animation Festival in Busan, South Korea premiered, and in February 2000, it was released in Germany. In Japan, it was officially released in the summer of 2000 due to the management problems of Shochiku.
Synopsis:
In 194x, Japan was defeated and occupied by Germany.
In 196x, Japan adopted a tough economic growth policy after the war, focusing only on overall economic growth, resulting in a surge of unemployment, social chaos, and even the emergence of anti-government groups that used armed struggle as a means. In order to suppress the unlimited expansion of the powers of the autonomous police, the Japanese government did not want to use the Self-Defense Forces to suppress it, so it established the "Metropolitan Police Agency" (hereinafter referred to as the Metropolitan Police) directly under the National Public Security Commission.
The special aircraft team of the Capital Police is equipped with heavy machine guns and armored suits. The powerful firepower and privileges make the autonomous police unpleasant; at a time when society is becoming more and more stable, the ruthless attitude towards armed thugs has been regarded by public opinion as the culprit of intensifying conflicts. , Even the capital police have been brewing a secret consensus to merge with the autonomous police and sacrifice the special aircraft team...
The story of the human wolf happened on the eve of the disintegration of the capital police. Fu Yigui, a member of the special aircraft, witnessed the mission of suppressing armed dissidents. The "Little Red Riding Hood" organization that transported explosives showed the scene of a girl who blew a bomb and blew herself up, and was dismissed and retrained for not killing the girl. One day, Fu coincidentally met the girl's sister, and the love between the two also spread secretly. Unexpectedly, this relationship has long been overshadowed by political disputes. The two of them are just pawns in the special plane team and the Ministry of Public Security ...
"Human Wolf" "It can be said that the plot and scenes of the comics are integrated, and new roles are given: the "Wolf" organization - an espionage organization led by the vice captain of the special aircraft team, Handa Moto, the protagonist Fu Yigui continues the dry and bright tone of the old work. The fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" is the main line, laying out the sinister and absurdity of "people" in the system, which is quite like an existential novel.
In the opening scene of the film, as the tall mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb rises, Japan is defeated, but the occupiers are... Germans? !
In order to maintain the chaotic social situation after the war, the government established the Capital Police. Several familiar "figures" can be seen in the capital police fleet under review - the Sd.kfz263 eight-wheeled heavy-duty communication vehicle at the head, and the Sd at the back. .kfz251C half-track, and VW82 Jeep.
Then, the daunting special aircraft team (special raiding force) of the capital police appeared on the stage, with an MG42 in hand, and you can feel its power in a while...
Sd.kfz263 communication vehicle and special aircraft team, you will see the photos of the real car Its composition is very solid.
The Sd.kfz263 eight-wheeled heavy-duty communication vehicle is an improved mobile communication station based on the Sd.kfz231/232 reconnaissance vehicle, with a frame antenna and a high-power radio installed. A machine gun.
The weapons of the anti-government organization "Czechte" guerrillas can be described as varied. The one in front of him is using a Berkman MP28 submachine gun, and the one behind him is holding a box of "Molotov cocktails". Such improvised incendiary and earth bombs by the guerrillas played an important role in street violence.
The Berkman MP28 (Bergman MP28) submachine gun was used by the Kuomintang army in the Battle of Songhu.
On Sd.kfz263, I watched the commander of the capital police in the street violent activities. Under the car, I could see the special fighters without masks. The helmets are M35/42 style, but there are several holes on both sides. According to the plot setting, the status of the capital police is between the police and the army, and it will not attack without special circumstances.
The leader of the guerrillas, after using a bomb to successfully attack the riot police, withdrew into the sewers (are Tokyo's sewers so wide?), using a British-made Sten MK2 submachine gun.
But the capital police followed, and the guerrillas fought with him.
Sten MK2 (Sten Mk II) submachine gun, the main submachine gun of the British army in World War II, is also a large number of equipment used by both sides during the war of liberation in my country.
However, in front of the MG42 of the special aircraft team, the resistance of the guerrillas was so fragile that the result was a massacre.
MG42, needless to say, the rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute, the unique flame of the muzzle flash suppressor, and the sound of tearing the tarpaulin are vividly displayed in the film.
The guerrillas also had an iron fist, but they were thumped before they could fire the shooter.
The Iron Fist Bazooka that once frightened Allied tankers.
What happened next was that when Fu Yigui, the hero of the film's special aircraft, faced a pure and lovely female guerrilla in the sewers, he couldn't kill the opponent according to the "shoot to kill" required by the mission. The panicked woman blew the bomb she was holding in her arms, and miraculously suffered only minor injuries. However, because of his soft-heartedness for a while, which led to the vicious accident of bomb explosions in non-conflict areas, he was pushed to the front desk to act as a scapegoat for the government's ineffectiveness, and was returned to the training school for further education.
Shooting training uses MP43/44, you can identify which one it is.
Street fighting training similar to CQB uses the Mkb42(H) assault rifle, the predecessor of the MP43/44.
The Mkb42(H), first seen in the SS unit fighting on the Eastern Front, received rave reviews. In the film, the two magazines are tied together with tape, one front and the other reverse, to reduce the time for changing the magazines during combat, which is not a habit that existed during World War II.
In the pistol shooting training, the protagonist used the capital police's self-defense weapon Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol (that is, the "box gun" familiar to Chinese people), and it was it that shot the sinful bullet at the end of the film.
At the end of the film, the "Wolf" plainclothes team also used a C96, but he installed the wooden gun box on the grip for precise aiming and shooting.
Mauser C96, this gun is the most equipped in China. During the Anti-Japanese War, countless devils died under the "box gun" gun.
Wipe the hero who loves guns, from this passage, the author should be quite familiar with the mechanism of MG42.
During the training school, the protagonist meets the heroine who looks like a self-destructing guerrilla, and the relationship silently germinates, develops, and grows... But all of this is actually an attempt to frame the hero and attack the capital police special team. of a trap. At a critical moment, the hero saw through all this, and staged a scene of a hero saving beauty in the museum. The Ministry of Public Security used standard equipment MP40, but it was not said that one shot was missed, and one was snatched away by the male protagonist.
SS soldier using the MP40 design, pay attention to his position with the gun.
The hero leads the heroine to the sewers and finally reveals his identity. It turns out that he is the "Wolf" - an espionage organization in the capital police special team. After the mantis caught the cicada and the oriole, the Ministry of Public Security did their best, but they still fell into the death trap set by the "human wolf".
The plainclothes "Wolf" team members who provided cover for the protagonist used the FG42 paratrooper machine gun.
The FG42 paratrooper machine gun, although not as famous as the MG42, is also famous. The Americans designed the M60 general-purpose machine gun with reference to the FG42 and MG42.
Under the double blow of "human wolf" FG42 and MG42, the members of the Ministry of Public Security were quickly lost, and the hunter became the prey instead. The team behind the palace shot at the hero Fu Yigui with a PzGr.30 grenade installed by Mauser 98K, but unfortunately missed. (Otherwise it would be miserable...)
The Mauser 98K and PzGr.30 anti-tank grenade were one of a series of individual anti-tank weapons developed for the German army on the Eastern Front.
Fu Yigui was a former colleague in the Ministry of Public Safety, and it was he who arranged the trap to frame the capital police, and he eventually died at the gunpoint of his former friend.
Walther P38 (Walther P38) pistol, used by German officers in World War II, continued to be produced in the name of P1 pistol after the war, with excellent performance. It is also a self-defense weapon of the Ministry of Public Security in the film, but it cannot penetrate the armored clothing of the capital police.
At this point, the battle in the film has come to an end, and can the hero and heroine who already know each other's details finally come together? Can they escape their tragic fate?
"...At the end of the story, the big bad wolf finally ate Little Red Riding Hood."
Postscript: Some people say that Miyazaki Jun is an optimist and the author of this film Mamoru Oshii is a pessimist. I feel that the style of the whole film is that of Mamoru Oshii. It's dark and sharp, and the story is not difficult to understand, but the weapons and vehicle setters are really professional, which is worth learning.
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