The American film "The Last Samurai" represents Westerners (such as Koizumi Yakumo)'s views on Japan, samurai and Bushido and important changes in Japanese society. It is a typical Hollywood-style commercial blockbuster, directed by Edward Z. Wick is more attentive, Tom is also very hardworking, Xiaoxueyun's beautiful performance is a highlight, Watanabe Ken and Sanada Hiroyuki's performances are quite satisfactory, and the photography is also very good, can it not be beautiful to shoot in a place like New Zealand!
I don't know much about Japanese history and I'm not very familiar with samurai and bushido. This story roughly tells about the general situation of the Southwest War and the end of the Tokugawa shogunate era (the samurai feudal system). After the success of the Meiji Restoration, Japan finally became strong. After more than ten years, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War was launched against China, and the notorious Sino-Japanese War was signed. Treaty of Shimonoseki. On the contrary, with the signing of this treaty, the Westernization movement of the Chinese Qing government in the same historical period was completely bankrupt!
So the film cannot but be reminiscent of Dances with Wolves (where the Indians also end with the Samurai) and Seediq Bale. The writer and director are clever enough to tell the story from the perspective of Captain America, and the effect is similar to what Daiyu saw and heard when she entered Jia's Mansion. This period in the movie is probably only fifty years later than Kobayashi Ichicha, one of the three haiku saints.
The process of the so-called civilization is always the strangulation and termination of the old civilization by the new civilization (there is also an inheritance in this movie), and the old civilization disappears with the rolling wheels of history. On the other hand, China's road to rejuvenation has been too long and difficult due to various historical reasons, but we have finally waited for the day when a great power rises! Recently, Japan has echoed the U.S. stance on the Taiwan issue, but the Taiwan issue is only a matter of time. After all, today's China is no longer the China of the past!
If you have time, you should study the books of Koizumi Yakumo and Dai Jitao. Know yourself and the enemy, and you will be safe in a hundred battles~
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