The opening scene left the audience with a rather stunning visual effect, so let’s go towards the magical feeling, which is not without serious problems, but it has to be integrated into the grand historical narrative. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, these famous figures in Japanese history began to appear. If it was just a historical background, it would be fine, but it turned out to be the main body of the film.
Maybe because of the country, I'm not very fond of Japanese historical films. Master Kurosawa's "Ran" and "Shadow Samurai" are great, but the focus is to dig deeper into human nature, not to restore history. This "Rogue Ishikawa" is even more chaotic, putting together big scenes, troubled times, legends, love triangles, and revenge, which have commercial selling points, but no sparks have been hit.
Although the picture has some characteristics, it always gives people a sense of disorganization. It seems that it is not enough to talk about expressionism; In the film, the palaces of the ruling class are all presented as Qionglou and Yuyu. In fact, most of the palaces in Japan are low-profile. The restoration of the ancient Japanese market is not as pleasant as the cartoon "Spirited Away".
Perhaps the comments of app users are more appropriate, this is a movie version of a live-action animation game.
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