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His name is "Iguchi Kiyobei", a lowest-ranking samurai who served the lord at the end of the shogunate, and supported his surviving family with a 50-stone boulder -- his wife died of tuberculosis, leaving two behind. A young daughter, Kayano and Eden, and a demented mother.
After the daily work of the shogunate was over, it was almost dusk. Colleagues went to the liquor store to sell wine and indulge, but Qingbingwei never participated, and he had to go home to take care of his family immediately. His colleagues despised his pedantic and shabby, so they gave him the nickname of "Twilight Qingbingwei". In this way, day after day, returning home at dusk, changing clothes, hoeing the ground, heavy and indifferent, in embarrassment and hardship, he gradually lost his heart of a samurai. In the quiet night, he asked his ten-year-old daughter in a deep voice, "Do you feel lonely without a mother?" Xuanye replied firmly, "If we have a father, we will not be lonely." Qingbingwei didn't laugh and said nothing.
In the shot, the birds in the far mountains, the smoke from the cooking in the small town, and the azure blue sky, accompanied by the sparse drum beats and the music of the beautiful Shama Pipa, vaguely indulge in a desireless tranquility—the tranquility before the showers.
The ancient Japanese samurai believed in the creed of "main family", and was completely governed by the principle of "race preservation". "Light life and death", "respect the promise", and "be mindful of spirit" were the behaviors of samurai (Dai Jitao's "On Japan"). When the tide of reform began, and the old man ordered Qingbingwei to kill Yuwu Zenemon, a swordsman master, in order to cut off his dissidents, he could not bear to die because of the fetters of life, but the vassal order could not be violated, which shows the hesitation, hesitation and struggle in his eyes. It intensified in an instant, as if torn apart, and disappeared in an instant, leaving only staring and sighing.
Qingbingwei agreed to the elder's request.
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cuckoos. Back home again at dusk. She is here. Qingbingwei couldn't help panicking:
she was Pengjiang, and she was Qingbingwei's childhood playmate when she was a teenager. She married a prominent family a few years ago, and her husband Fengtaro was drinking and beating all day long. With the support of her brother, she divorced.
The two walked together under the moon. Pengjiang has not been so happy for a long time: "Master Qingbingwei has not changed at all, but I have changed a lot. I still remember going to pick fruit together..." A pair of bright eyes flashed under the soft moonlight. But Qingbingwei had already experienced hardships, and the desolate situation made him reluctant to recall the past and distant past, and a glimpse was enough.
Until one day, Pengjiang's brother confessed to Qingbingwei that she intended to marry, but was categorically rejected by Qingbingwei. The reason is that in the era of strict hierarchies, women of noble birth were not allowed to marry poor men; in addition, Qingbingwei was fully aware of the pressure of life: "Maybe at the beginning, but over time, she will complain about such a life, I I don't want her to suffer like this." Pengjiang disappeared from the Qingbingwei family from then on. I don't know the real thoughts of Qingbingwei at that time, but why didn't Pengjiang think of this? She has the determination to break through the resistance, but Kiyobei does not have the courage to accept it. Destiny is just that way.
The time for the decisive battle with Yuwu Zenemon was approaching, and Qingbingwei asked Pengjiang to fix his hairpin. The director didn't set up too many dialogues, but just asked the two to silently change their clothes, tie their belts, and comb their hair with their backs to the camera... More shocking than spoken language. There is an empty room, a teapot, and the silence is only breathing.
Qingbingwei knew that the murder was auspicious: "I remember when I was a child, when I gave you a doll, I dreamed of one day wearing golden armor to marry you." soul.
"This dream has never faded after I got married and after you married Jiatian."
"If I come back and propose to you, will you, will you agree to me?" It was hope, the hope for him to live.
Why did you say that at this time? Pengjiang is very contradictory, I don't know whether to be happy or worried.
"A few days ago, a family of nobles proposed to me, and I agreed."
Why do men always reveal their sincerity at the last moment in all the tragic stories; Even we no longer criticize the illogical words and deeds of the characters before and after, and no longer scrutinize whether the story is true. ("Whispers on the Edge of Life")
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Qingbingwei still saw this monster - Yu Wu Shanemon, but found that Yu Wu was also a rough person like himself. Without the nervousness of a duel, Yu Wu, who was bereaved of her daughter and bereaved her master, was very drunk and calmly told her unbearable past. Both are burdened by the injustice of fate and times. Being born in troubled times, it is lucky to be able to maintain life, but there are always people who live for others, which just paints the so-called luck with the most ironic color of misfortune. "Life is never a matter of one person." It is a painful choice to fulfill oneself or fulfill others.
Yu Wu chewed the ashes of his deceased daughter, as if he heard him muttering again: "It's so dark, it's hell..." What's wrong with dying for loyalty and living for love? This tortured Qingbingwei, and also tortured the hearts of the audience.
Maybe everything can change, but there is always something that stays the same.
When Yu Wu heard that Qingbingwei had sold the treasured sword that symbolized the soul of a samurai for the funeral of his deceased wife, he suddenly showed a fierce look, and the slaughter had come to an end...
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to be the daughter who will be aged seventy or eighty years later. When Deng recalled the experience, he could not hide his happiness. Qingbingwei finally won. After being seriously injured, he returned home again in the evening. Looking through the door, Pengjiang stood there blankly.
"I didn't expect you to still be here." Qing Bingwei said weakly. Isn't this what Pengjiang wanted to say? Watching Pengjiang fall in Qingbingwei's arms, weeping and muttering, the quiet and soothing music of Inoue Heshui played slowly, without deliberate exaggeration. This peaceful atmosphere runs through the film from beginning to end.
Only three years of happy life. During the Meiji Restoration, Iguchi Kiyobei, who was a samurai faction, was killed by gunfire while fighting against the mighty Emperor's army, realizing the value of a samurai.
Colleagues of Qingbingwei often said that Twilight-kun was a pitiful person, but his daughter Eden did not think so: "He is happy." Indeed, true happiness comes from the forbearance of the soul, and the greatest happiness comes from sincere family affection and friendship. Pure love, even in the most restless times.
And just as Yu Wu shouted: "The samurai is finished", a new era is coming, with the last samurai disappearing like twilight.
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