Zatoichi, the servant of the three horses, cutting the abdomen and killing the sword. After reading so many sword and halberd films and non-sword and halberd films, in terms of the artistic conception and aesthetic feeling of the killing formation, none of them can compare to the Great Bodhisattva Ridge.
Tatsuya Nakadai's cut to the abdomen is good. After all, it is still a film that is not suitable for watching a second time. The theme of the whole movie is too heavy, and the scene design lacks the freehand style of Dapusatsuling.
Because of my sudden interest in Japan, I also bought several copies of Iwanami Japanese History. I've been wondering if the element of benevolence is evident in Japanese and ethnic social norms, or if Confucianism has always prevailed in Japanese culture. If the answer is no, then many of the comments on this film are mostly one-sided. The Japanese civilization framework has been very different from China since the shogunate period, and they never really entered the Confucian society.
It has always been surprising that the pilgrims and the three thousand generations of the new pearls really touched the murderous intentions under similar backgrounds. These are two very wonderful blank spaces in the movie. Many doubts can only be found by reading the original book, or only from the interview of Okamoto Kihachi (Hashimoto Shinobu) on the movie.
The samurai in Kurosawa and Kobayashi's films, such as the Seven Samurai and Kirito, may be universal in some ways, but Kihachi Okamoto's is not.
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