Takeshi Kitano is very Japanese, China should be more "very Chinese"

Wava 2022-04-20 09:01:56

After watching Kitano Takeshi's film, I think it is better than Kurosawa's. Because he is very Japanese, this is also felt by other ethnic groups.

In China, there should be more filmmakers like this. Our understanding of the national spirit is still superficial, and when it comes to performance in movies, it is even more unbearable.

Although it is a chivalrous movie with fairy tale color, think about how our Hong Kong movies spoof classics, our martial arts movies can't keep up with Jin Yong's original works, this is the blind spot of Chinese film and television people, their own experience is less, and the accumulation is less.

I hope that people with lofty ideals will mature as soon as possible, and practitioners can deeply experience it.

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  • Alphonso 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    It can be regarded as the best representative of Kitano Takeshi and all his works, which are both good and evil. A fusion of violence and comedy, it has the shape of a traditional samurai movie, but it is also deconstructed. In the era of broken rituals and broken music, the so-called warrior spirit of the samurai has long since fallen into the dust. Taking a savior's attitude, Kitano Takeshi not only brought the town back to singing and dancing (the tap dance section of the curtain call at the end of the stage), but also gave the samurai a new image and spirit while abandoning the traditional image of the samurai. Of course, his attitude is not arrogant or narcissistic, and it ends with a street bashing, self-deprecating.

  • Desiree 2022-04-22 07:01:38

    Ronin, swordsman, revenge, justice, cut people, be cut, cut themselves. Clean and powerful. Couldn't like it more!

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi quotes

  • Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that?

    Zatôichi: I don't see much

  • Aunt Oume: This must be quite a sight! I'm guiding a masseur, who's carrying my vegetables.

    Zatôichi: Wish I could see that!