Kitano Musazato City

Leola 2021-12-24 08:01:19

Kitano Takeshi’s golden fluff, his cool gimmicks, including the film’s very contemporary soundtrack, decorating traditional martial arts dramas with current popular elements, we can appreciate Kitano’s stubbornness and creativity, just like the unexpected flashes in the film Like his cold humor, it seems random, but it embodies his inexhaustible talent and complex personality. The always cold image style is often disintegrated by sudden humor. This has been clearly shown in "Fireworks", death and warmth. Hand in hand to the end. "Zato City" is an old entertainment-oriented remake of an old film. The legendary story of a folk hero has an obvious element of pleasing the people. Therefore, Kitano missed the opportunity to sprinkle the rich humor with his personal characteristics, which greatly increased the interest of the film. . In order to get rid of the enemy's entanglement, the blind man Zatoichi closed his eyes and drew eyeballs on the lids to pretend to be a normal person. When the blind man Zatoichi fought against the enemy, he stared wide-eyed and pretended to be a normal person to add a bleak and murderous aura, making the enemy shudder. The blind man Zatoshi was walking on a country road where the moon star is rare, and he was almost tossed with a stone. Then he sighed helplessly with self-deprecating: "Although I try to keep my eyes wide open, I can't see anything." After an inadvertent stagger, the film ends. This time, there is no need to meditate on Kitano-style death philosophy. We happily entertained it.

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Extended Reading
  • 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: I have to say, it's incredible. You really look like a woman! Does make-up make men beautiful?

    Geisha Seitaro 'Osei' Naruto: It doesn't work on everyone. It depends on the face!

  • Zatôichi: [Last lines: Zatoichi trips on a rock while walking down a road] Even with my eyes wide open, I can't see anything.