I watched a film "The Imperial Law" by Nagisa Oshima in two nights. Since its release in 1999, the film has won numerous awards, not to mention its international influence, setting a record of sweeping 23 awards in Japan. The 15-year-old Matsuda Ryuhei also won various Best Newcomer awards for his debut film.
Basically, people who like to watch Japanese dramas and Japanese small fresh, healing, pure love movies, love letters from many years ago, and in recent years, "My First Love Belongs to You", "White Rabbit Candy", "True Night's Bakery" "Anything is fine. Nagisa Oshima knew about this director for a long time, and he was involved in taboo subjects. For example, "The World of the Senses" in the top ten taboos that I would never dare to watch is from his hands.
Maybe because I like historical themes, I watched it. It turns out that this is not a purely historical film.
God of law, what is it trying to tell us? Adapted from the "Xinzongji Blood Wind Lu" by the historical novelist Sima Ryotaro. Imperial law refers to the strict group system established by the pro-shogunate ronin samurai organization Shinsengumi in order to maintain the system. The movie Yufadu started with the selection of newcomers by the new writing team. The young Soji Okita fought with the samurai who came to take the test one by one. In the end, the wealthy family son Gana Sozaburo of Kyoto and the lower-level samurai Tashiro Hyozo were left behind. Garner, 18 years old, still has bangs, and looks like the reincarnation of the ancient Japanese samurai on the ukiyo-e.
Ghana's appearance should be in line with the classical Japanese beauty. He is very attractive, with slender eyes, slightly raised thin lips, and the agility of a young man. He is always cold, innocent, but with an indescribable evil spirit. Male sex, in Japan, as in ancient China, Longyang's broken sleeves is not shameful, and even seems to be quite popular. Therefore, between Ghana's eyes and ears, not only Tashiro who joined the group together at the time, but also the general manager Kondo Isamu, and the deputy head Toshizo Hijikata seem to favor him, so it is "good" for Tashiro and Ghana circulating in the group Or so-and-so is also obsessed with Garner and seems to turn a blind eye.
Ghana Sozaburo and Tashiro read the lengthy "Godfado" together when they joined the group. The strictness of the law did not prevent the overflow of emotion. It is difficult for some to understand what these big men are obsessed with. Ghana is always beautiful, a kind of bewitching beauty, even through the screen seems to be able to feel the charm of the flower blooming. When the ugly Yuzawa said "I want to hold you in my arms and listen to the birdsong in the morning", it would be very uncomfortable to hear this sentence looking at Yuzawa's face, but the camera pans to Sozaburo Ghana. The young man's eyes were indifferent, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Yuzawa couldn't escape the charm of Poppy, and neither could Tashiro. The bewitching beauty makes women sigh. In order to make him close to women, Yamazaki took him to a brothel. When the lady oiran sang three folds, it was not beautiful at all. The dance steps of the oiran in Kyoto were like squirming green worms. And next to So Saburo of Ghana, his eyes were tired, as if there was no one else, but he responded to the sentence that was as beautiful as a peach and plum, and as cold as frost.
Garner should be disgusted, disgusted with these people around him, just like the beauties surrounded by many green leaves are tired of too many inconspicuous suitors, it should be like this feeling. He likes new conquests, so he confuses Yamazaki, he hates Yuzawa and Tashiro who surround him and occupy him, so he kills them.
Garner killed Yuzawa, I can understand it very well. Without this person, maybe Garner is still a beautiful young samurai. Will he take the road of male sex and broken sleeves? Blasphemy beauty is unforgivable, and even I think Yuzawa deserves to be killed in particular. When Garner went to frame Tashiro and used Tashiro's feelings for him to gently beg for mercy when he was at a disadvantage, Tashiro immediately relented, and Garner immediately killed Tashiro. It was a little incomprehensible at first. Tashiro clearly treated him much better than Yuzawa's simple physical demands, his feelings were sincere, and he was very dedicated, but Garner made up for it after he had fallen to the ground. How much resentment does it take to do this? Maybe Ghana's body and emotions are also separate, and the person who tempted his body should be killed by Yuzawa, then Tashiro Hiozo, who led him into the quagmire of masculine emotions, should be killed even more? 100 people should have 100 different opinions when they look at the imperial law. Maybe my statement is not comprehensive, but it is a pity that Tadanobu Asano, who played Tashiro, is the only person from MAN~~
In the process, Okita told the story of "The Alliance of Chrysanthemums", and also brought out the cruelty of the imperial law, whether it is male or female, or male and female, once a mutually beneficial and symbiotic relationship is formed , resulting in a strong attachment, just like the attachment of a smoker to a poppy, the strong sense of protection that cannot be interfered by outsiders will arise. So Okita also explained why Hijikata killed Shannan back then--because he wanted to intervene in the friendship and alliance that Kondo and Hijikata had shared for many years. Under the imperial law, through the mouths of other samurai, the natural Lixinliu's control of the new writing group was revealed, which is not a serial law.
Soji Okita, a young man with a sunny smile, represents the only positive energy in the play. He watched the children fish on a sunny day. He told Hijikata that he hated male sex and the alliance of chrysanthemums, but he liked it. Beautiful story, that's all. When they were in charge of monitoring the process of Ghana's cleanup of "murderer" Tashiro, they found that a mistake was made. Yuzawa was not killed by Tashiro, but Ghana. However, the ending was irreversible, and Tashiro Hiroshi died at the hands of Ghana---the one he loved. In his hand, when he thinks about it, in his heart, it should be a moth to the flames of happiness.
Tufang said: "General Manager, it's not that you like Ghana, but Ghana likes you." There isn't a half-screen in the whole show that Garner likes Okita. But at this time, he felt how much Garner admired Mr. Okita, and in order to attract his attention, in order to get close to him, he would not hesitate to kill all the admirers around him. Deformed love.
Okita turned back, Hijikata saw the beautiful cherry tree in front of him, exuding an indescribable demonic atmosphere, he thought that Ghana was possessed by a monster, "monster monster", Hijikata kept shouting like this, cut down the cherry tree , suddenly falling into a colorful, indescribable beauty - this picture has been mentioned by many comments in the history of the film, the beauty is indescribable - but on the Internet, the quality of the picture is really poor, you should collect the dvd. , came a scream from Garner. Chief Director Okita finally brought out the bewitching beauty with his own hands.
The story of Yufadu is over, and I still feel that the cherry tree with its petals scattered and fallen down, like slow motion, lingers in my heart. The petals are dotted with dots, like tears like rain. I have to believe that So Saburo of Ghana, that glamorous and bewitching man, is as beautiful as poppies drifting like the wind. The spooky story, the suffocatingly calm descriptions, the performances of Nagisa Oshima, and the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto all make this film impressive.
There are no words and no words to describe it all.
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