In the films of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, the use of sex to narrate film and television has become his label, whether it is sex between characters or sex between humans and beasts, it is not. A rational homeopathy arises, but is accompanied by a vicious gushing out. As one of Nagisa Oshima's most representative works, "Royal Law" has been filmed for several years and won four important awards of the Japanese Film Blue Ribbon Award and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. With this film, the 15-year-old Matsuda Ryuhei's cold but handsome face of a Japanese samurai also made the audience unforgettable.
The beauty of the samurai Garner made the samurai of the Tokugawa shogunate who were under martial law fall into a death vortex. When Gana Sosaburo, who was favored by the Chief Secretary Okita, entered the Shinsengumi unit, everyone in the samurai was killed by him. Fascinated by beauty, while ignoring Garner's bloodthirsty and cruel side as a samurai, Garner successfully seduced Uzawa through his innocent and pure face and had a same-sex relationship with him. Ambiguous relationship. Youzawa was assassinated, and Hijikata was killed at the last moment by Ghana's innocent and glamorous face. At the end of the film, Soji Okita, who initially took a fancy to Ghana, shouted a few words: "Devil devil" and then cut down a cherry tree. The falling cherry blossoms flying all over the sky are like the banner of a desperate beauty erecting a success. People under the beautiful outer skin are fragile and vulnerable, and the depths of seemingly beautiful things are often unpredictable. , and even darker and terrifying.
Ghana's bangs are not cut for a long time, which is exactly what Okita said in the play: "It is a kind of non-rejection of the kindness of others", and all this points to the weakness of the Tokugawa shogunate's law. This is a story about The vicious instigation of "beautiful sex" is also a disguised satire on the system.
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