too japanese

The last time I watched Yoji Yamada's film was "The Story of Torajiro - Love of Hydrangea" at the Film Archive. Although I went there that day to watch KAGAYA's "Galactic Railway Story", after "Galactic Railway Story", I couldn't help but read "Tanjiro" which was not short. That night, what remained in my heart at the end was not "Galaxy" or "Tie Dao", but the fat man who was familiar with everyone. In the 48 films of "Man's Life Is Hard", Yoji Yamada used 48 films to understand, study, and express Japan, the Japanese people, and Japanese society.
I originally thought that "One Point of the Samurai" should not be as good as "The Qinghei of Dusk". The result was a miscalculation. "One Point of the Samurai" is very beautiful, and the beauty of it is that it is so Japanese.
It's not that it's Japan because it's a samurai period drama, but that it expresses a spiritual world that Japan has run through from ancient times to the present. Japan is a country that lacks change. People living in this country have only a few personalities and ideals that can be clearly counted with their fingers. The Japanese are habitually following the crowd and adhering to the ideals of the public. Even if they are rebellious, they must follow the popular rebellious style. No one will admit the unique style. What "One Point of the Samurai" really expresses is the road that has been handed down in the spiritual life of the Japanese. Although almost all Japanese literary and artistic works try to describe this road, it can be expressed like "One Point of the Samurai". Very few are so clear.
Watching this film well, for a non-Japanese, you can clearly see the real Japanese cultural spirit, emotional norms, ideals and reality. It's so Japanese, and that's what "Samurai's Point" is good for.

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