I like to read martial arts novels, especially Gu Long. I have also watched a lot of movies adapted from Gu Long’s novel. The one that is closest to Gu Long’s style is “Zatoichi” by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.
The story resembles a cologne.
The blind swordsman who roamed everywhere, shot like lightning, and blood splashed where the sword light flashed.
A geisha disguised as a woman, waving five strings in her hand, with murderous intent in her eyes.
A down-and-out samurai, for the woman he loves, endures humiliation to survive, and is willing to be an eagle dog.
The peaceful town, the dilapidated tavern, and the hunchbacked old bartender who was called to and fro, was actually the boss of the gang and the culprit of the murder.
By the sea, a duel between a blind swordsman and a samurai, a sword sentence of life and death.
Kitano Takeshi's understanding of chivalry is also similar to that of Gulong.
The chivalry in Gu Long's writings is different from the chivalry in Jin Yong's writings. Jin Yong's chivalry is a kind of consummation. The process of an ordinary person growing into a hero is an accident and a process of gradual completion. What a chivalrous person brings to a person is goodness. Good retribution, evil retribution, is fame, prestige and wealth, is the pursuit and extravagance in the eyes of the world. The hero in Gu Long's pen is a kind of incompleteness, like the blindness of a blind swordsman, it is a destiny that has to be shouldered. Even with unparalleled martial arts, he can't escape his destiny with the help of his skills. Not happiness, but more often, it is loneliness and sadness.
The blind swordsman Zatoichi has an excellent swordsmanship, but he lives a life of wandering around. The samurai Hattori has amazing martial arts skills, but he can only be a slave, and finally died under the blind swordsman's sword. His wife also committed suicide. Brothers and sisters who narrowly escaped the bloody murder case, obsessed with the mission of revenge, twisting their own nature in forced smiles.
On the contrary, those ordinary farmers lived a comfortable and happy life. Walking out of the town where the gang fights, and away from the slashing and slashing, those few farmers who work in the fields, no matter the weather, make people see the joy of work, especially the one ploughing the fields in the rain. dance too. The so-called samurai spirit has become the trick of a lunatic in the countryside. Towns and villages are contrasting in every way, color, music, rhythm, now idyllic, now a battlefield of swords and shadows, violence and tranquility can be combined so seamlessly.
The last dance during the house building was more interesting. It looked like a modern tap dance, cheerful and enthusiastic.
As soon as the camera turned, the blind swordsman tripped over a small stone on the dark road, and opened his blind eyes in vain.
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