Spider Nest City

Letitia 2022-03-20 09:01:57

"Spider's Nest City: Nominated for the 20th Venice Golden Lion Award (DVD)" Synopsis: During the Warring States Period, the generals Takeshi Miyuki and General Miki made great achievements in suppressing the rebellion and returned to the main village to receive the reward. Passing through the Spider's Foot Forest and got lost. When he meets a witch, he predicts that Washizu will become the lord of Beicheng. He returned to the main village, Guozhen, and appointed him as the city lord of Beicheng. He believed that the prophecy was the reality, so at the instigation of his wife Asamao, according to the witch's prophecy, he planned to kill the lord and named himself the city lord of Spider Nest City. Later, he designed General Miki. Miki's son protects the king from the siege. Asakusa was condemned by his conscience for his evil deeds, and went mad...

The post-view of Spider's Nest City, a netizen from Zhuoyue.com: Although it is a very old black and white film, it is still far better than the current New Year's film. This film has been selected as one of 200 Japanese business cards and won the top ten award. Fourth place, won the New York Mayor's Award at the Kurosawa Akira Film Retrospective held in the United States...

Spider's Nest City: After being nominated for the 20th Venice Golden Lion Award (DVD), from the netizens of Dangdang.com: Akira Kurosawa made the Shakespeare's famous play "Macbeth" in Japan, which is known as the adaptation of the Shakespeare film One of the most successful masterpieces, in addition to giving full play to the strong dramatic contradictions and human nature of the original play, the foggy forest scene more successfully plays a labyrinth-like symbolic role, making Washatsu (that is, played by Toshiro Mifune) more successful. Macbeth) was at a loss as to why. Asakusa (Mrs. Macbeth) played by Yamada Isuzu has absorbed the Japanese "Noh" performance style, and the castle where the castle owner was killed is also arranged like an antique "Noh" stage, which makes the film show visual effects. Charming ethnic character. It is also a costume action film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The restraint of this film and the boldness of "Seven Samurai" can be called two extremes...

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  • Collin 2021-12-22 08:01:06

    The version I saw actually translated "Miki" into "Sam".........In an instant I broke down Orz

  • Collin 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Desires, ambitions, suspicions, anxiety, and conscience in people's hearts are all intertwined in Kurosawa's lens. It depicts a ghostly human tragedy, and the slightest chill soaks into the skin, making people shiver. It itself is like the spider hand forest in the movie, filled with endless layers of white fog of desire, and smeared with terrifying blood on the bones of the forest, reflecting the spider nest city in everyone's heart.

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