No more innovative martial arts movies

Alexis 2022-03-23 09:02:27

I don't think Miike is a person who is good at thinking, so people don't focus on that. But this film is obviously not B-grade enough, and the battle is reminiscent of early martial arts films.
I don't know if it was to take care of the grading at the beginning of the incision, but I kept staring at the actor's expression. In comparison, the incision in Yuskin Mishima's "Worrying the Country" is much more serious than this.
The brutality of the big bad guy is described later, like a crazy neurotic, so the samurai went to eliminate the evil for the country. Regarding the final villain sighing that he will start a war after taking power, it is more like adding a theoretical basis for the actions of the samurai to "walk the path for heaven".
Want to see something about humanity, justice, faith, etc. in this movie... I think it's a bit silly. All these are not the focus of the director's description, all the foreshadowing is to describe the battle, not to sublimate the characters.
Okay, it's a modern version of a martial arts film. Nothing more innovative, but lost some of the essence of a B-movie.

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13 Assassins quotes

  • Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: [after being stabbed by Shinzaemon Shimada's sword] It hurts.

  • Koyata: Why are you samurai so arrogant?