Wearing a samurai mask, adhering to the so-called dignity

Ian 2022-03-24 09:02:11

After watching this version, I realized that "One Life" is not a little bit worse. Miike made a mistake this time. It's exactly the same case that happened in different spaces, so let's face the story of parallel time and space.
During the period of war and chaos, there are external and internal problems, people's lives are hard, and their lives are always threatened. It was a time when samurai were needed, and they needed to protect the country with the accessory area and protect the important people. The era has created a large number of warriors, who are either accepted by big families as disciples, or become generals reused by the court, and they have a great time. But in the days of peace, the samurai were no longer used, and few were lucky enough to stay in the big households, and most of them were forced to become ronin. And these ronin are mostly poor people who are wandering around and living in no fixed place. In the new era that requires a skill, a swordsmanship is useless to solve the problem of food and clothing.
In the spirit of Japanese Bushido, the act of "cutting the abdomen" cannot be ignored. They believe that this is an honorable act of righteousness and is regarded as the most honorable way to die. In an era of peace without wars and killings, "cutting the abdomen" turned out to be an honorable way for a downcast warrior to keep his face. Is this the greatness of Bushido or hypocrisy?
Qian Qianyan's request for a woman to come here is very likely to be "hypothetical incision". From the standpoint of a famous family, it is understandable to decide to stifle this bad extortion wind and follow the flow of the boat to fulfill his desire for incision. But even knowing that he only had a bamboo sword, he still let him cut his abdomen with this object, and Alisma, as a "mistaken person", made him tortured and humiliated to death. How important is the sword to a samurai, Qian Qianyan can only sell it as the last symbol of the samurai in order to make a living. And the Ii family is still numb under such a premise. This kind of insult to the samurai and human nature is the fundamental reason why Hanshiro finally came to take revenge. I hope to maintain the dignity of the samurai, but I don't know that the spirit of Bushido has ended at any time in that old era.

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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.