This is what a ninja should look like, this is an anime that a man should watch

Tillman 2022-01-07 15:54:18

A few days ago, I saw someone saying that this is a "male god in costume". Well, so handsome, with handsome spicy eyes.

However, shouldn't the "costume male god" be Jiangzi? For the sake of fairness, I also put a side face photo, a male silver enough to bend straight men.
Gorgeous dividing line~~~The above pure Tucao~~~

Recently, I have completely fallen into the pit of anime or animation. I will share it with you bit by bit. First, I strongly recommend "Beast Guards Ninfu Post". If you like "Mad Max: Fury Road", then you must also like this This is an anime about ninjas in the Shogunate period. You see, the poster alone is very flavorful.

How to describe the film, "violent aesthetics" is the best summary. Thanks to the animation, such a work that cuts people into two pieces and halves if they don't agree with each other, undresses if they don't agree with them, or shed blood when they don't agree, is only slightly more acceptable to the public. The animation of 1993, now it seems, is still beautiful. The picture is mixed with cloudy and sunny, all kinds of weird, all kinds of beautiful, very gothic, very ghostly, such as the picture below:

Personally, the love of ninjas, such as the four turtles living in the sewers of New York, was a favorite of childhood. But a certain super hot ninja series, I have never seen it. Kneeling and watching "Beast Guard Ninfu Post", I understood the reason. Compared with this film, the Ninja series of "Migrant Workers Manga" is like a child playing house.

Just like the knight in China, to understand the chrysanthemum and the sword, the ninja is a good entry point. Compared to samurai, ninjas are closer to civilians, such as the Tooth God Beast Guard, who can be hired at the price of thirty taels of gold. To a certain extent, the status of ninjas is more like that of doormen in the Warring States period in China, and their behavior is similar to that of the high-men before Tang Legend. "Knights use martial arts to violate bans, Confucianism uses literature to chaos law", whether knights or ninjas, are all true portrayals of the above ten characters. Their existence is a kind of expectation in the hearts of ordinary people in China and Japan, and it is impossible for law. The place touched is the dark gray justice, drinking the hottest wine, riding the fiercest horse, cutting off the most hated head, loving the person who loves the most, it is the hearty and delightful enmity.

It's just that this dark gray justice needs to pay a huge price. How can the adult world lack the shadow of the sword? How can there be no death in the world of swords and shadows everywhere? From the very beginning, "Beast Guards Ninja Post" was tyrannical. The residents of the village were slaughtered by the "plague", the corpses were eaten by crows, and the children held rattles in their hands. There are dead bodies chopped in two pieces everywhere, and the ninja leader’s method of death is comparable to the five-horse corpse division. Where there is violence, there is eroticism. The Japanese are really skilled in this area. They just don’t post pictures. Anyway, you’ll know after watching them. There are resources on station A. Remember to watch the theater version first. The TV version is average.

To be honest, there are a lot of illogical aspects in this film, but it's just enjoyable to watch. The real martial arts are the real martial arts. Use the time of eating a rice ball to knock out opponents, chop melons and chop vegetables to kill several enemies in seconds, single-handedly, and cross the oceans to avenge the beloved woman, this is the bloody rivers and lakes in the true sense. Among all kinds of stories that can be resurrected after death by brainless magic and brain-deficient screenwriters, the existence of "Jubei Ninfeng Post" is very important. Just like Jubei himself said, he most hates people who don’t cherish life. Because I live as hard as an ant, I have to live more excitingly. Just as the old monk said, being able to see through people's hearts and use them is the most powerful part of a ninja, but these are not as good as a sincere heart, and this is the most precious thing in Yubingwei.

The interesting thing about this film is that the two surnames behind the story, Toyotomi and Tokugawa, combine the grievances of the arena with historical events, as if a certain Chinese is best at it. For these two famous names in Japanese history, director Yoshiaki Kawajiri is extremely ironic. The ninja who has always been loyal to his lord is the boss. Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi all go to doggies.

The master showdown with one move to control the enemy is also a highlight of the film. The real master PK, the victory and defeat are only on the front line, there is no time to transform, shout slogans, and gather energy. After the knife is out of the sheath, it will be life and death.

Despite being infinitely admired by modern people, ninjas in history are far less beautiful than imagined, and more helpless. As the lord’s personal belongings, the ninja is nothing more than a talking dog, and even his life is the lord’s own, let alone other rights. In such an environment, one can imagine the fate of a female ninja. As a tool for the hero to test poison, the female ninja Yangyan has never expected love, but for the first time in her life, she still met the one who treated her as a woman. Not a man who looks at an object.

The first real conversation was in the night when fireflies flashed. In the end, this wandering man left with her relics. We always said that we should not talk about children's love in troubled times, but we don't know that children's love in troubled times is deeper. When the ending song sounded, the figure of this man reappeared in the night when the fireflies were flashing, sitting quietly like that, vague and lonely, but there was something on his body, but there was another person in his heart.

The ending song is really good. Amway: Who is far from it? (Lyrics: Mikawa Sho, Composer: Yamanashi, Arrangement: Shinkawa Hiro, 呗: Yamanashi)

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Extended Reading
  • Consuelo 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    4.5 Violent aesthetics, although the film is a bit old, and the picture looks rough now, but the fluency of the plot is quite good. The male protagonist is the type in the traditional Japanese martial arts movies, and is destined to be a lonely warrior. In addition, I think how those perverted ninjas are established physically!

  • Roscoe 2022-01-07 15:54:18

    The eclectic classic does not have the extreme cinematic style of Otomo Katsuhiro, nor is it as harmless and environmentally friendly as Hayao Miyazaki of the same period, and does not have the aesthetic tendency of Oshii Mamoru. Blood is blood, flesh is flesh, and dirty is dirty.

Ninja Scroll quotes

  • Yurimaru: Benisato... you mean the man Jubei Kibagami is the remnant of the government spies?

    Benisato: Possibly.

    Yurimaru: Why didn't you kill him?

    Benisato: Someone interfered.

    Yurimaru: No excuses accepted.

    [attempts to wrap a wire around her neck, but she catches it and it wraps around her arm]

    Yurimaru: If he is a government spy, he'll show up soon enough. Be sure to kill him next time.

    Benisato: I don't need your advice on that. If you don't mind, I'll tell Gemma in bed later on, Yurimaru. Do you mind?

    Yurimaru: [pulls the wire from Benisato's arm] Sleep well.

  • [last lines]

    Jubei: [after cutting part of Dakuan's robes and letting a gold ingot fall into the sea] That will be your payment, old man. Make sure I never see you again.

    Dakuan: Aha - so, you beat me. I thought I would shut your mouth in Edo, but on second thought, you probably wouldn't live that long as you so love risking your life. Everything ends exactly as I have written it!

    [laughs crazily as Jubei leaves]