Why I like Japan has a lot to do with their movies.
I don't think it's dignified to use the frivolous but common and effective word "big" to judge this film. For example, I say that Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" is very good, I think it is very appropriate, there is nothing wrong with it, it is true, that's all. But "Narayama Festival Kao" I dare not say.
This movie seriously fits many of my perceptions (limited) and seriously satisfies my emotions. I was extremely excited when my son carried his mother up the mountain. Those mountains, rocks and trees, desolate or enthusiastic, make me think that the Yuan and Ming dynasties may simply be the deep mountains that a certain character (prisoner or apprentice) in "Dou E Injustice" and "Three Words and Two Pai" passed through and died in order to make a living.
This perception appeared in Kobayashi Masaki's "Strange Talk". The first picture of the first "Black Hair": the forest building, the courtyard overgrown with weeds, the swaying in the night light, the man returning at night. The words "Ludi Xiaoxiao" immediately popped out of my mind. These four characters are not only the scene in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", but also appeared repeatedly in Yuefu in the Han Dynasty. Of course, my opinion at the time was still focused on Tang poetry. I mean, Kobayashi Masaki's film language expresses Tang poetry.
I was horrified when the bones appeared. But not "scared". I feel very sad. When the mother spreads out the mat and sits on it. Like my relatives are doing the same thing. She told me to go, but not shout. But indisputable eyes and actions. The boundaries between life and death are connected by bones. The soul and the body reside in the boulders and weeds at the same time. Is the old man waiting? No, that is existence.
I am in awe of the cultural confidence of the Japanese. For example, they always like to use calligraphy subtitles. Maybe it's not just a matter of self-confidence, but an aesthetic. From an aesthetic point of view, what is self-confidence and inferiority complex?
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