7.5 points.
Watanabe Shinichiro is a rare TV animation director with strong authorship. The combination of modern and avant-garde music style and the story background of the Shogunate era collided to create a unique audio-visual style for Watanabe:
Audio and video complement each other and are indispensable. The inherent narrative and value traditions are reconstructed in the spirit of hip-hop. The movements of the characters are lively and fierce, shuttle back and forth between freehand and realistic, full of power and skill, brutal and bloody and hearty.
From "Cowboy Bebop" to "Chaos Warriors", it is not difficult to see that Watanabe has no interest in long-form narratives. He is always fascinated by building a narrative environment with a unique atmosphere, and then completing his work in the form of a unit drama in this environment. emotional expression.
Compared with the story, Watanabe cares more about the rendering and amplification of emotions, and the story of each episode essentially serves this purpose. As shown in the film, rather than the sloppy reason for the three main characters to get together (in order to find a samurai who smells of sunflowers) and the destination to go, what really matters is that one of them is buried without any calculation or planning. Just embarking on a journey of lightness and detachment, a kind of sympathy that transcends loneliness but does not abandon loneliness, a kind of rogue chivalrous spirit that can say goodbye and meet again at any intersection.
And when all this is intertwined, it also shows why Watanabe is more serious about the moment when the samurai draws the sword than the moment when he draws the sword-because it grows what he is constantly searching for, and must be in the face of death. The ultimate romance that can only be burst out in a short time in the dismissive.
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