The ronin fell with many knives, and in the end there were only a few old masters left to think helplessly.

Amani 2022-03-23 09:02:10

Director Kobayashi Masaki's 1964 black-and-white work is quite critical. Quite rich in Kurosawa Akira's thinking, the actor is also the same person who played Takeda Shingen in "Shadow Warrior". The film complains on behalf of the lower class to those in power who do not understand the situation of the people. The way of telling stories may have influenced Zhang Yimou's [Hero] today, but many people only think of Kurosawa's [Rashomon].

The samurai of Toshiba Yuzura were abandoned by the system, and it was painful to live with dignity. There is a bigger problem for those who have family members to support. No one wants to hire samurai at work. If you don’t give up the samurai sword that represents your dignity, life will be sad. Some people went to the mansion of the still powerful official and asked for a "cut belly" to send their samurai to the last decent liberation in life. But there are too many people who come to worry, so they simply give some money to send these poor warriors. But it also attracted even more respectable money-seekers in the name of cutting the abdomen.

The powerful Ito family enshrines the armor of the ancestors, the carefree family elders and the samurai who are salaried still live with dignity, and the samurai spirit is carried out in an institutional form. They were cold to those who demanded money in the name of cutting the abdomen at the time, believing that the sacred Bushido spirit was being insulted by them.

Qian Qianyan begged for her daughter to go to the Ito family for abdominal incision, but she had no intention of dying. Once the samurai of the Ito family completed their abdominal incision arrangements, they did not want to give money, so that they would never come to the future. , The poor man has already sold the samurai sword around him because he has a wife and a child with lung disease at home, leaving only the outer scabbard, and then using the bamboo instead of the blade to maintain a samurai dignity in front of others. Now that my son has a high fever and desperately needs money to see a doctor, he thinks of this last resort. Who would have thought that the bamboo blade sword would cause the Ito family samurai to think it was a disgrace to the character of the samurai, and he even asked Qian Qianyan to use his own sword to cut his abdomen. , Jiecuoren's one-handed knife-style master even delayed his time and required him to complete the heroic cross-shaped abdominal incision. His family died one after another because he couldn't raise the money.

One day, a ronin like a poor samurai came to the Ito family to beg for incision. He was depressed but his eyes were bright and his attitude was comfortable, which made the elders of the Ito family very oppressive. The ronin asked everyone to listen to him tell a story, and the ronin told the story of Qian Qianyan's tragic death under the eyes of Yan Li's warriors. The samurai master of Yidao Liu in his family was the wrong person, but he was unable to attend due to illness, and even the two people who were ordered to treat Qian Qianyan were not shown due to illness.

In fact, Ronin was a high-ranking samurai from a former domain, but he was living in poverty to solve the feudal system. He wanted to get justice for his son-in-law. He had already found the above three to win the duel and took his hairpin, insulting his samurai dignity and making him invisible. people, to make them understand the misery of a samurai without dignity. In the end, they all cut their stomachs at their own house. It is not a samurai to defeat and hide. They should have died and thanked the world, but the so-called samurai are all people who are afraid of death. Compared with Qian Qianyan's death and dignity, Qian Qianyan cut his belly with a bamboo knife. These so-called killing Qian Qianyan The sword-wielding Daoist of Dao is simply unqualified and shameless.

In the end, the ronin and the Ito family had a battle. It is true that no one person can defeat a hundred people. The master finally killed eight samurai and overthrew the armor that the Ito family enshrined in the ancestral head of the family.

The ronin fell with many knives, and in the end there were only a few old masters left to think helplessly.

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Hara-Kiri quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Hanshiro Tsugumo: Motome Chijiiwa was a man of some acquaintance to me.

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.