Kagemusha

Dolores 2022-04-19 09:02:33

"Five years of life, a thousand worlds, a moment, but Nanke's dream is a life that is impermanent and must end"

The reason why shadow warriors can be highly recognized internationally by watching the film alone may be based on the association seeing the director's efforts and the almost ubiquitous cultural symbols of the three islands in East Asia and the humanities of the three islands in the film. ethics

Shadow Warriors should be a way to give later war films a lot of inspiration for the handling of war scenes, leaving a lot of reference for other directors

The film is too long and some plots are over-presented, which reminds me of "Gone with the Wind"

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Extended Reading
  • Alice 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    "With the deity, the stand-in is meaningful. What happens to the stand-in when the deity is dead?" Maybe this is Kurosawa Akira's discussion of the word "movie", and the development of his movie is gradually moving towards Kurosawa Akira's inner "picture" " approached. Akira Kurosawa also told the audience once again that it is not impossible to simplify the plot of the movie, and how to make such a simple story into a three-hour feature film. Among them, the picture of "Dream" will inevitably remind people of "Dream" 10 years later. "As fast as the wind, as gentle as the forest, fierce as the fire, and fixed as the mountain." The wind stops the forest, destroys the fire, extinguishes the mountain, and everything is blurred, and an era ends. Personally, I like Akira Kurosawa, but I am not too impressed with this later work.

  • Nannie 2022-03-19 09:01:06

    The three-hour movie was divided into three times to finish it, and it was a classic. The ending story has been known for a long time, and it is still shocking to see the scene where the wind, forest, and fire troops make a decisive charge at the end with only horseshoes, gunfire and soundtrack. Kurosawa is worthy of being a master. Not only did he tell a story, he also kept the emotions of the characters in the story with moving pictures and opera-like music in the audience's memory.

Kagemusha quotes

  • Shingen Takeda: I am wicked, as you believe. I am a scoundrel. I banished my father and I killed my own son. I will do anything to rule this country. War is everywhere. Unless somebody unifies the nation and reigns over us, we will see more rivers of blood and more mountains of the dead.

  • Nobukado Takeda: I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing.