Nagisa Oshima's last work was nominated for Best Picture at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival.
The final winner of that session was "Dancer in the Darkness", which was also a session of brilliant Chinese films. Jiang Wen's "Devils Are Coming" won the Jury Prize, Tony Leung won the Best Actor with "In the Mood for Love", and Yang Dechang relied on "Yi Yi" won Best Director.
With so much gossip, I just want to say that it's normal for "Yu Fadu" to lose. Although he won many awards in Japan, Ryuhei Matsumoto won the Newcomer Award, and Shinji Takeda and Tadanobu Asano won the Best Supporting Actor Award.
Movies I don't like. Probably, also because Asano Tadanobu's role in it is too cannon fodder.
The director just wanted to tell a story about "amazing beauty". Amazing beauty, evil, charm, darkness and death.
The beautiful boy Sozaburo Gana (Ryuhei Matsuda) joins the samurai organization "Shinsengumi", and because of his amazing beauty, he becomes the object of his coveted admiration. Beginning with Tashiro Hakuzo (Asano Tadanobu), he has been pursued and obtained by people constantly, and he has also continued to accept it, and seduce those who insist that he is not attracted to him. A boy who does not hesitate when killing. beautiful. Grim. evil. Make waves in this samurai organization.
Garner kept killing and attacking those who wanted his body. Blame Tashiro. Unmoved to represent the organization to kill Tashiro - when he was cornered by Tashiro, he gently spit out "please forgive me", Tashiro's sword softened - Garner is an evil boy who knows how to use his beauty. .
Uncle Kitano Takeshi played the role of one of the leaders, Hijikata. He was open-minded throughout the whole process, and kept thinking about "who really likes Ghana".
When he wanted to understand that it turned out that Ghana's secret crush was Okita Souji (Takeda Shinji), Okita was already on his way to kill this beautiful monster.
I am incapable of accepting Matsuda Ryuhei's appearance. What I think is beautiful is Takeda Shinji who plays Okita, who is beautiful, handsome and light. Nagisa Oshima originally intended for him to play Ghana, but the director had a stroke, and the film was stagnant for 5 years. When reshooting, he thought he was too old (and only 27 years old!), and used 16-year-old Ryuhei Matsuda. Probably, to control such a "blue-faced calamity", "youthful feeling" is more important than beauty itself. It looks innocent and splendid, but it is murderous because of beauty. In a man's world that should have been masculine, he has killed all over the place.
26-year-old Asano Tadanobu is very handsome. I don't understand why Garner can accept such ugly "others", but is so cruel to Tashiro. First meeting, goodbye, every time in the competition, Garner, who is more skilled in martial arts, will lose to Tashiro, so the bosses determine that they are secret lovers. Tashiro even committed a foul in order to watch Garner perform a murder mission for the first time, and was imprisoned. In order to get Ghana, he did not flinch when a dagger was pointed at his neck. If you are affectionate and righteous, you will still be soft-hearted after being betrayed, because soft-hearted will die under the sword of your beloved.
Too bad there are so few scenes. Guanghua was taken away by Takeda Shinji. Okita, who was born faintly, is the moonlight in Ghana's heart. With his beauty, he swept the heartstrings from the highest boss to the lowest samurai, but he could not reach Okita, who was watching indifferently. In the end, if Tashiro was willing to die under Ghana's hands, and Ghana died under Okita's hands, isn't that what he wanted?
"Love but not" is the cycle of many stories in the world. Beautiful, not beautiful, can't escape, right?
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