The story of the film is adapted from Takiguchi Yasuhiko's novel "Ronin Strange Stories", which tells the story of Ronin Hanshiro who has a poor but happy family. Daughter, son-in-law Qian Qianyan begging for a daughter and a newborn grandson. Because his son was sick, his wife was bedridden, his son-in-law begged his daughter to learn as a ronin, and went to Jingyi's house, a well-known family, to ask for suicide by belly-cut in exchange for three taels of silver to see a doctor for his son. Yan Nu, who had already given her large and small knives to pawns to sell them for money, had to cut her abdomen with a bamboo knife to commit suicide, suffering humiliation and pain. To make matters worse, Hanshiro in the family watched his grandson die of illness, and his daughter committed suicide with a bamboo knife. The extremely angry Hanshiro went to the Ii family and made a scene in the name of cutting his belly.
The biggest selling point of the film, the 3D effect, was used very sparingly in the hands of director Miike, which well set off the film's atmosphere without being overwhelming. The most useful 3D film is not the snowflakes flying around, but the surrounding scenery that is the least noticeable. The Japanese attach great importance to the concept of courtyard, so if the level of a family's courtyard can be clearly expressed in the film, it will be of great help to the expression of the film's ideas and content. In this film, the entrance of Otoi's house, from the white stone in the open air to the wooden ladder on the first floor, to the elder on the wooden ladder on the second floor, and then to the family emblem behind the elder, the courtyard level of the highlight "cut belly" relies on 3D effects Lifelike, highlighting the isolation and helplessness of Shiro Hanshiro and his son-in-law Iwama who were held hostage.
At the end of the film, the armor of the samurai ancestors that Hanshiro knocked down before his death was erected again, like a ghost who was exhausted but still reluctant to leave, still watching the hypocritical descendants make excuses in their own name It can be said that the irony of the film has been raised to a level.
The famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto also composed the soundtrack for this epoch-making 3D film. In describing the difficult but happy time of the Banshiro family, he boldly used the guitar accompaniment; in the second half of the film, he simply used the drum to create bad luck. The sense of urgency at the door makes the life of the picture come out, but it does not rob the audience's attention too much.
At the end of the film, there were only sparse applause in the audience, and this well-made reflection did not resonate with too many Western audiences.
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