The real blockbuster in my heart

Jose 2022-03-22 09:02:22

4.5. Another masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa. In Kurosawa Akira's films, I think the backgrounds of good works are set in ancient Japan; modern ones are not good enough. It's a war movie, just like "Ran"; it still makes me emotional because I've watched another movie of the movie history. Youku's resources are very clear, and the font settings are very comfortable; Akira Kurosawa's costumes and colors are top-notch, and this is the real blockbuster in my heart. Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" borrowed from this film; I think they each have their own merits and are excellent (to be precise, "Shadow Warrior" is a classic). I think the film is a relatively small-scale war film; this is the most different point from "Ran". The "small pattern" here means that the main focus of the movie is on the protagonist, but there are also bloody and brutal war scenes in the cold weapon era. At the end of the movie, the substitute was thrown out of the palace because he fell on the horse and was kicked out of the palace; "The strange thing is that he can fool both the enemy and us, but he can't win a horse."

In this scene, Akira Kurosawa satirized the entire human being very boldly;

There's a surreal dream in the middle of the movie; it's good, but a little dizzying.

In the film, the background of Japan's Warring States Period is worthy of careful study; many of Kurosawa's films involve the history of ancient Japan.

I noticed that there is often a cloud of khaki mist in the picture of the movie; it is worth learning from, there is helplessness and criticism of the cruel reality.

The film does have a lot of fatalism in it; thinking on various philosophical levels is what I like very much.

The three-hour viewing experience was full of challenges; it also brought me unprecedented excitement and confidence.

There's not much else to say; a great movie that will definitely be rewatched in the future, and now let me savor the details that amaze me in this film.

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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.