Period action dramas are one of the regular types of commercial movies, and they are very appealing to some mainstream audiences, feeding the stories of wanderers during the end of the curtain and the Meiji period to mainstream audiences. At the same time, it is the original work of the anime, which has touched the nerves of the fans of the two-dimensional element - here it is again! Ruining childhood, bad fantasy, the three-dimensional "eye damage" series will bring down "Rurouni Kenshin"!
First, the cast list will appear, then the makeup photos will be finalized, and then the trailer of the movie will be released, which is a foregone conclusion.
The box office that reflects the mainstream appetite must prove the possibility of the three-dimensional, and the nerves of the two-dimensional must be tested by personal observation, so that it is not so tight and broken. Filming began in August 2011, and in August a year later, the 134-minute live-action film "Rurouni Kenshin" was officially released. Half a year later, I made Blu-ray and DVD products, turned on the player, and moved the PLAY button. Before this real-life picture of "Rurouni Kenshin" appeared... I recalled the twenty-odd volumes of "Rurouni Kenshin" comics. , as well as the two OVAs "Remembrance" and "Star Frost" that have abused countless fans.
The sound, color, light and shadow of the two-dimensional elements are constantly gathered in memory into a group of brilliance, and then scattered into pieces of shadows, criss-crossing, originally only the product of the combination of lines. The power of the movie has polished "Rurouni Kenshin" into another form and a flesh-and-blood story.
Between swords, lights, swords, and shadows, there are grievances and grievances in the rivers and lakes, and the pictures are constantly advancing and alternating. Seeing our Feicun Jianxin leap into the air, it is like the feeling of flying immortals in the common action dramas of Chinese martial arts dramas. , smashing the enemy in one fell swoop... Only to find that this movie is actually better than expected. Before I watched the film, my imagination was to combine too many experiences from the anime adaptation film "Thunderbolt". Fortunately, "preconceptions" did not completely bind the viewing experience, and quickly broke free. This "Rurouni Kenshin" two-dimensional breaks the invisible thick wall and integrates the three-dimensional - it can be evaluated in one sentence as: a rare and successful live-action adaptation.
There are two main factors behind the success of this live-action adaptation.
One is that it was not made into a cosplay film. Reducing or eliminating the expression of the two-dimensional element is the best way to deal with the movie properly, and it is a straight-forward search in vain. The actor's grasp of the role is completely aside from the appearance of the anime, what role is what role. Performing a movie is to perform a role, to shape the shape and spirit of a character, not to act as the skin of a two-dimensional character. In order to cater to the design of the 2D lines of the shape, it is very contrived and clumsy to pursue the restoration of the character's appearance to the animation. .
The second factor is the success of the design of the killing array action scene. At that time, several propaganda slogans adapted into the movie were "Life and death depend on the sword" and "Walk with the sword". A few words are enough to summarize the positioning of the era action drama movie, and the protagonist Hiimura Kenshin is the identity of the Meiji wandering swordsman. From the end of the curtain to the Meiji era, the audience can see the wonderful martial arts scenes under that background. To be honest, the flying sword-fighting moves set by the comics are well presented in the film, and the high-speed movement and sharp moves of Jian Xin dazzled the audience. In addition to the main Kenshin, other character action scenes with unique skills also have a sense of existence. As a martial arts drama, after watching it, the visual battle accounts for about two-thirds of the film. To tell the truth, if the killing formation is done, the whole film will be more than 70% successful, and there are even several scenes that are very similar to Hong Kong martial arts movies. Seeing the list of actors and crew at the end of the film, it turns out that the production team of "Rurouni Kenshin" still invited an orthodox action director. The action director of this film is Kenji Tanagaki. Now, Tanigaki is mainly active in the Hong Kong film industry, often cooperating with Donnie Yen and Jackie Chan on the scene, and also served as the action director of the video games "Dynasty Warriors" and "Warring States Warriors". Tanigaki is also the only Japanese in the "Hong Kong Action Stunt Actors Guild".
The film divided the original manga into the first few volumes of the Tokyo chapter, adjusted the order, and integrated them. If you just copy the comics, the previous animation version has already been done, so if this work goes the same way, why do you have to make this movie version? Therefore, to have new interpretations and new performances, this is the meaning of adapting "Rurouni Kenshin" into a live-action movie.
The opening is the "Battle of Toba Fushimi" ten years ago on the Tokyo chapter timeline. The new government army supporting Emperor Meiji and the old shogunate army supporting General Tokugawa fought to the death in the mountains and forests. Snowflakes were falling, gunpowder smoke was rolling, blood was splattering, and the camera swept across. Saito, who originally appeared later than the others, was dressed in Shinsengumi's signature light onion-colored feather weave, with a cigarette in his mouth. Covered in mud and blood, he staggered through the battlefield, slashing one enemy after another, and his comrades kept dying before his eyes.
Xiao kills the mountains and forests, flashes of cold light, and wherever the blade passes, all of them arouse blood like a torrential rain - the executioner Hiicura Drawing Daosai appeared in front of Saitoichi, and it was the most vivid memory in Saitoichi's memory. Strong executioner. At the end of the Shogunate era, as the pennant was raised, it collapsed with a bang, and the Meiji era was about to begin. Hiicura Tuosai put down the bloody knife in his hand, and slowly spit out a voice: "Has a new era come..." Saito held the sword, pointed to Tuosai and said, "You live by the sword, die for the sword, yes. Our only way." After drawing the knife, he silently slammed the blood-stained knife in his hand into the ground, turned and left, the blood running on the knife still reflected the afterimage of his desolation. At this moment, the key character of the film, the executioner of the shogunate, Yutang Renwei, crawled out from the mountain of corpses, his eyes were round and round like the ashes of the battlefield, and he caught the one left by the executioner of the Restoration Datosai. Knife...
After ten years, the scar of the cross is still clearly engraved on the cheek of the wandering swordsman. The executioner who drew the sword back then was already the wanderer Hiicun Kenshin, and he made the "oath not to kill". Reverse-edged sword, no longer drinking blood like madness, wandering the world is still looking for the answer in my heart, banishing the rivers and lakes and clinging to the redemption that no one knows about.
The enthusiastic voice of the army chief, Yama Prefecture, expressed the high spirits of the new Meiji era. At the same time, in the mansion full of antiques and treasures, the brutal and greedy face, Takeda Kanyanagi, emerged from the smoke. One of Kagawa's photos has always been an actor who is not good-looking but has great acting skills. He plays Takeda Kanyanagi with accent, smoking a pipe, and vividly performing the image of this villain who eats people and does not spit out bones.
As soon as Aoi Yu's Gao Hehui entered the door, she dressed up in a gentian-colored coat exactly like the manga. However, there was still a trace of doubt in her eyes to look at her on the screen. Aoi Yu is a frequent visitor to literary films. Luoluo has a simple and elegant temperament. Xiaoqing is the unique and profound imprint of Aoi Yu as an actor. At this time, it seems difficult to erase. Kamiya Kaoru and Sagara Sanosuke they call it "Fox Spirit". Gao Hehui watched helplessly as the group of doctors who came with him were all killed, and shed tears in horror. She originally came to Tokyo to find her family. She first worked as a doctor's assistant, but unexpectedly entered Takeda's wolf den and was imprisoned from then on, making opium for Takeda.
Kenshin strolled the streets of Tokyo with a festive atmosphere, actor Sato Kencai showed a refreshing smile, and a pair of slender eyes flashed a smile, which made people see the gentle and lovely side of Kenshin. There are frequent murders of fake executioners drawing swords in various places in Tokyo. Saitoichi has already entered the Metropolitan Police Department as a police officer under the pseudonym Fujita Goro and is also a government spy. In the comics, he will appear in the late Tokyo chapter. The current Saito has merged the role of the police officer in the murder case of the counterfeit Totosai, and he is the one to track down the fake Totosai. This former Mibu wolf has survived from the end of the curtain. When he was Fujita Goro, he usually kept a low profile, squinting his eyes and playing his little police officer. He acted calmly, and his emotions were invisible. Yosuke Eguchi frowned deeply from the beginning to the end, his expression was serious, and he used his method to portray Saitoichi's arrogance and arrogance, that is, at some times, it was slightly off, which made Saitoichi's mood a little exposed, and worn away a little bit of shrewdness. deep trait.
Saito sees Kenshin as an old enemy for many years. He is the former leader of the third division of the Shinsengumi. As the "Mibu Wolf", he has experienced countless brutal battles and overcame countless difficulties. With the passage of time, Saitoichi's identity has changed, and so has the line of business he is engaged in. What remains unchanged is that the concept of "evil, that is, beheaded" remains the same. Between Saitoichi and Kenshin, he put Kenshin's reverse-blade knife on his shoulders, and blood and rain soaked Kenshin's clothes... The wrestling in the yard of the police station revealed the contradiction between Saitoichi and Kenshin It was he who couldn't understand that the strongest executioner in his memory had abandoned his original way of life, and his way of thinking did not keep killing like the ruthless executioners who were like ghosts and gods in the past.
Kenshin has a sad past, he made the "oath not to kill", Saito reprimanded him for "hypocrisy", saying that Kenshin is just a half-assed ronin, that is "evil", then, the evil will be cut off. "Mibu Wolf" Saito Kazuki must look at the past and the present from his own standpoint - "The Executioner Pulling the Sword" and "Rogue Hiimura Kenshin" who have abandoned the past. The relationship between Saitoichi and Kenshin lies in the idea of "Wolf Mibu" that "the executioner and the wanderer are the same person", and the process of resolving the entangled relationship is from the inexorable relationship in the early stage to the later Wu and Yue in the same boat.
"The executioner draws his sword!" This sudden sentence was the fateful encounter between Hiimura Kenshin and Kamiya Kaoru. There are comic encounters in comics, and another encounter in movies, but they are also the beginnings of romantic legends belonging to Rurouni Kenshin and Kendo girl Kaoru.
Takei Saki is very young, and at the height of his youth, he fits Kaoru Kamiya who is also a girl. Actor Takei Saki herself is on the rise in her acting career, and her eyes always have a firm and bright aura, which is reflected in every role she plays now. The most impressive thing is that her eyes are like torches. A character like Kamiya Kaoru seems to blow up the world around Kenshin with a different warm and bright wind, blowing into the heart that is burdened with heavy sins and is accustomed to a wandering life. However, Takei Saki also took Xiao Kaoru's cheerfulness according to her age when she was also a girl, and she didn't need to act. The lively and joyful interaction with his apprentice Yahiko Myojin, holding an umbrella in the rain to pick up Jianxin at the gate of the police station, envy, jealousy and hatred of Gao Hehui's maturity... The unstoppable youthful wind from inside and outside not only blows and dilutes Kenshin's whole body with snow. The coldness inside also deeply influenced the audience with the image of a simple girl.
However, the compression and changes of the scenes did not well portray Kamiya Kaoru as the acting master of the dojo. Kaoru's martial arts are actually very strong. She can stand on her own at a young age and can compete with other genres. Bamboo swordsmanship is top-notch, but she is dwarfed by a master of flying swordsmanship like Kenshin. In the movie, Takei Saki was completely suppressed by Sato Ken's experience in Shaolin boxing, floor dancing, and equipment gymnastics in a large number of fighting scenes. The first attack of Udo Blade Guard, the kicking of the Hiruma Brothers' gang, and the kidnapping of Utang Blade Guard were all so weak and powerless. It can be seen that Kaoru, the acting master of Kamiya Hoshiru Dojo, has been weakened. As a result, Takei Saki seems to have only one role in the whole film except for the girl's side - staring.
The nineteen-year-old Sagara Sanosuke in the Tokyo chapter changed the way he appeared on the stage, and the word "evil" behind it is the one-word philosophy that belongs to this thug. Kenshin was thrown into prison for violating the law of the Meiji era to abolish the sword, and in that prison he saw Sagara Sanosuke played by Takao Aoki. Takao Aoki is now 32 years old, nearly twice the size of Zuanosuke's original 19-year-old. He is tall and burly, but he seems a little fatter-but it's good not to stick to the second dimension. Seeing Zuo Nosuke punching like the wind, as strong as a tiger, wielding his saber vigorously, and fighting with Kenshin on the river bank and bridge, showing the "Zuo Zuo" demeanor, you know that Aoki's Zuo Nosuke has already played the role. It's safe, not in vain to guide Tanagaki's special training to Aoki, and also lent him the DVD of "The Fuse" starring Donnie Yen.
Takeda Kanliu regards Gao Hehui as a hen who can lay golden eggs. In order to escape from Kanliu's trap, Gao Hehui flees in a hurry despite the heavy rain and meets Yahiko, the god of god. The middle part of the film can basically be regarded as the convergence of the two lines of Kei and Kenshin. With Gao Hehui's admission to the Kamiya Dojo, the film drips water and ingeniously infuses the reminiscence chapter. Kenshin saw a woman crying bitterly on the body of the victim who faked the murder of the swordsman - his thoughts also returned to the Kyoto night in the reminiscence chapter of the assassination of the samurai Kiyosato.
The night cherry blossoms are colorful, this is the beautiful scenery of the good day, the murderous silk of the sword drawing room, once became a blood-stained night. In order to wait for his fiancee to return, the young samurai did not want to die. He struggled several times. Kenshin raised the knife again and again, and was accidentally slashed by Kiyori on his cheek. A knife wound with strong resentment, a sinner's brand that will never be erased. Jian Xin was short of breath, his body trembled slightly, and the idea of the executioner began to shake. The next day, Jianxin returned to the bloody murder scene in the rain. In the rain curtain, Xuedaiba fell on the body of her fiancé and appeared in Jianxin's field of vision. She only showed the audience her fleeting back, a bloody smell. Bai Meixiang lingered, and the reminiscence chapter came to an abrupt end in the blur of that woman's figure. Kaoru's call brought Kenshin back to reality.
The ups and downs of the plot lead to Takeda Kanyanagi dispatching private troops to poison innocent residents. Guan Yuanmiao, the proprietress of the beef hot pot restaurant, came to ask for help, and Zuo Nosuke entered the Kamiya Dojo with the poisoned waiter Sanjo Yan. The doctor Gao Hehui showed her skills, and Aoi Yu stabilized the audience with the character's characteristics. She is the complete Gao Hehui. After a dazzling performance of rejuvenation, Hui sat by the small river and confided his true life to Kenshin. His tone and demeanor portrayed Gao Hehui's complex state of mind with such a beautiful appearance, who originally intended to save the world, but was helpless and desperate and was haunted by nightmares. Although some viewers thought that Yuu Aoi's appearance was not "fox spirit", she did have a deep understanding of Gao Hehui's role and grasped it delicately. In this film, in such a limited scene for her, Aoi Yu achieved a perfect performance, and the highlights were ten.
Gao Hehui returned to Takeda Kanryu mansion alone to assassinate Kanliu. Kenshin and Zuo nosuke joined forces to break into the dog-legged subgroup that had gathered in the Takeda mansion battle. Towards the end, the confrontation between Kenshin and Udo Blade Guard was the beginning of the climax. Originally, the private corps hired by Takeda Kanyanagi was in the comics Shino Mori Cangzi and the secret royal court fans led by him, but in this film they have become other characters. Although there is a masked character who looks like Cang Zi's subordinate General Ruo, after the mask is lifted, the unrecognizable Prajna is completely unrecognizable. Half-faced yellow-haired man. The character name of Waiyin has already appeared in the later period of the comic story. Snow Daiba's younger brother, Snow Daiyuan, is one of the "six comrades", who was originally a skeleton mask puppet master who manipulates steel wires, but his real face is an old man. Wai Yin and Kenshin fought in the indoor hall. He used his pistol to swirl a feather of feathers, and he also drew out a small sword to fight with Kenshin. It was not Hannya's hook-and-claw move, nor was the original Wai Yin's wire swing, four. The character moves of Naimori Cangazi, who is used to the small sword, are reflected in Gai Yin, and then reproduce the huge Grimm automatic machine gun of Guan Liu. Mibu Wolf Saitoichi's personal signature sword move "Tooth Knocking" was short-lived, but he actually just knocked down the chandelier...
After defeating Takeda Kanryu's gang, the finale with Udo Blade Guard will be staged immediately. It was his fake executioner who drew the sword. Bladeguard's stance is the central figure in Kenshin's decision to move the midline between the two quadrants, the Executioner and the Rogue, for Kenshin, who has become the Rogue swore not to kill. Udo Renwei, who wears a black hat, is a wandering killer who is dominated by the killing sword. Ten years ago, he came into contact with the knife of the sword of the sword, and the guard remembered the executioner of the sword, and the guard himself stepped into murder. The bloody Shura Road was unwilling to withdraw, and could not withdraw, and was driven by the desire to kill. For him, this murderous karma continues until death.
Udo Kaoru kidnapped Kaoru, and used the "Nikaidou Pingfaxin one" like a sorcery to numb Kaoru's breath, using Rurouni Kenshin's oath not to kill and using the sword to protect people. Jianxin's current guardian sword has become a weak point. He wants Jianxin to get angry and go mad. Instead of the gentleness and kindness of the ronin, he will change back to the former executioner who killed countless people, was extremely powerful and ruthless - "Jianxin! Stop it! Don't." Change back to the Executioner!" Just as Kenshin's eyes gleamed fiercely, he reversed the reverse-blade knife and slashed towards the Blade Guard, Kaoru used all his strength to unravel the "one side of the heart". Blade Guard committed suicide, screaming: "The executioner is the executioner, and it is the same until death."
The memories of the souls of the cross wounded like a shadow and flooded into Kenshin's heart, the cycle of hatred repeated for a long time, how many years, the repayment of sins is so long, the completion of redemption is so far away... Kenshin silently hugs the fainted Kaoru, step by step As soon as he walked up the steps, Saito came towards him. Saito once looked at Kenshin who passed by, and still insisted on the words he said in Toba Fushimi in the forest ten years ago: "You live by the sword, die by the sword. , is the only way for us." However, the same sentence was said to the executioner Pulling Dao Zhai back then, but now it is said to Rurouni Kenshin. Saitoichi is no longer holding a sword to face each other, but lighting a cigarette in his hand; Pulling Daozai put down the sword, and Kenshin hugged the person he wanted to protect. Then, in a clean red dress, he walked into the sun-drenched yard of the Kamiya Dojo, holding a basket containing a handful of fresh vegetables, facing the girl in front of him, Jian Xin showed a warm smile: "I'm back next time."
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