Be the greatest bandit ever, smuggle to America, and have sex with babes

Lizeth 2022-03-26 09:01:08

At the beginning, there is a text introducing the background of the film, the last sentence of which is worth noting - "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs One Hundred Years Before". This sentence has actually told the audience that what Miike wants to tell is not just a historical story.

Among the thirteen assassins, two have special identities. One is the savage who joined last, and the other is Shinrokuro played by Takayuki Yamada, because it was these two who survived. When the samurai came together, there were twelve, and the "thirteenth" assassin encountered on the way was not a samurai, but a bandit. Michi later told the audience that this thief had a huge dick, was immortal, did not understand the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, and was basically a savage. Before joining the Assassin, Yamada was a vagrant gambler and a whore client, but because he could not find the value of life in the casino and Fengyuechang, he joined "a major gamble". It can be said that the motivation of these two people to participate in the assassination is different from that of the other eleven. The two of them don't really care about the righteousness of the world, and they don't know why they want to assassinate the general's younger brother. They just kill for the sake of killing and destroy the world. That is their goal (suddenly seems to understand Mr. Pang Pu's point, he said the word benevolence and righteousness, benevolence is "life", righteousness is "killing").

Look at the last two people who died, one was the head of the Thirteen Assassins, Shimada, and the other was the target of the assassination, the general's younger brother Qi Shao. Apart from the two who survived, the two of them saw through the so-called "Bushido", but they were two extremes. It was obvious that Shimada could not bear the burden of the "samurai". For example, he chose to retire from the arena , fishing and fishing, "floating in the river and sea", it is also good to say that people are about to die. Before his death, he advised his nephew to stop being a samurai. It can be seen that he has seen through the corruption of Bushido, but once the meaning of it is revealed, he still Will be excited with trembling hands, or have to return to his identity as a samurai to complete his glory, it can be seen that Shimada is actually the most divided character. Qi Shao is at the other extreme. In his nature, he should respect nature, but he was born in an emperor's family. He was born as a slave owner, surrounded by slaves, but his nature made him unable to stand the world full of slavery. He thought He wants to rebel against all of this, so he wants to rape the lord's daughter-in-law and kill all the loyal children, but in fact, what he raped is not the lord's daughter-in-law, but the kind of slavery. He wants to use violence to anger those slaves. In his heart, he is actually He hoped that the provoked minions would rebel against him, so he longed for the fighting and killing of the Warring States period, saying "if a person has been mediocre, life will be so boring." So he hoped that people "come with life and death" Sacrifice", if he becomes a general, he must bring the world back to war again. To put it bluntly, war is to carry out a cultural revolution, to break the life of the die-hard and ignorant of Bushido, so that everyone can develop freely and freely .






Therefore, Miike's arrangement of death is in order. Those heroic warriors died one by one. In the end, they saw through the dross of Bushido and were powerless. The survivors were two ronin, one person's life. The goal is to "find that beautiful Axue, and then have a good time with her." The other goal is to "be the greatest bandit, smuggle to America, and have sex with foreign girls." Miike

's ending is quite delicate, When Shinrokuro's wife saw Shinrokuro's return, her eyes were full of anticipation, but how will Shinrokuro survive? Should he continue to be a samurai and enjoy the glory of being a hoe hero, or really, as he said, be a bandit, smuggle to America, and have sex with a foreign girl? I think this is a question Miike asks all Japanese men.

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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?