Released in 2010, the costume martial arts film "Sword Rain" is a costume martial arts film produced by Wu Yusen and co-directed by Su Zhaobin, and co-starring Yang Ziqiong, Zheng Yusheng, Wang Xuexi, Xu Xiyuan and other costume martial arts films.
At the beginning of the film's release, the film's box office and word-of-mouth were not good, after many years, it was praised by the audience as "the most underrated martial arts film", and the Douban score gradually changed from the lowest score at the beginning to 7.5 points today.
The story begins with the body of Rama. Hundreds of years ago, when the Tianzhu high monk Rama Ancestor went to the Central Plains to propagate the Dharma, he voluntarily purified himself and entered the palace of Emperor Wu of Liang for three years. After that, Rama crossed the river and practiced martial arts in the face of Jiuhua Mountain for nineteen years. After Rama's death, he was buried at Bears Ears Mountain by the Gatekeepers. A few years later, his body was stolen from the coffin and divided into two parts.
Rama's remains contain the Absolute Divine Skills, and if he obtains the remains, he can practice the Peerless Divine Skills and dominate the martial arts, and the remains of Rama can be regenerated and reborn, and the defects can be filled. In order to compete for the remains, the rivers and lakes were full of bloody storms. The most mysterious assassination organization in the jianghu, Blackstone, has also been tracking the body.
According to the rumors in the jianghu, half of rama's body was obtained by Zhang Haiduan, the first assistant of the dynasty. Black Stone sent killers to besiege Zhang Mansion, and the most powerful killer in the Black Stone Organization, Drizzle, killed the first assistant Zhang Haiduan and his son Zhang Renfeng, snatched half of Rama's body, and disappeared into the rivers and lakes.
The person who made the drizzle disappear was called Lu Zhu. It turned out that Drizzle did not kill Zhang Renfeng in Zhang Mansion, and Zhang Renfeng appeared on the stone bridge and was once again killed by Drizzle under the stone bridge with the water avoidance sword method. At this time, Lu Zhu appeared.
Lu Zhu was a monk, and the purpose of his coming was to temper the drizzle.
Drizzle refused, and after that, the two entangled for three months. When they once again finished the martial arts competition in the broken temple, Lu Zhu said that he wanted to find a temple to shave, and Drizzle said, "Which temple dares to help you shave, I will kill all the old and young people in the temple!" ”
In order to temper the drizzle and let her put down the murderous sword in her hand, Lu Zhu chose to use death to wake up the drizzle: Tonight, it is time for me to eliminate this evil and end this relationship.
Lu Zhu told Xiaoyu that there were four fatal loopholes in her Forty-One Way Water Breaking Sword Technique, and once she encountered a master who was seen through, she would undoubtedly die. In the temple, Lu Zhu told Drizzle about the loopholes in her sword technique and taught her how to resolve them. Then, he died under the sword of the drizzle.
Before he died, Lu Zhu said to Drizzle: The Zen machine has arrived, if you can put down the sword in your hand and leave this path, I hope that you will be the last person to kill." Lu Zhu's words made Drizzle completely repent, and since then he has been willing to leave the BlackStone Organization, change his face, and be reborn as a human being.
Since then, there has been no drizzle on the rivers and lakes. After that, there was an ordinary woman zeng jing in the capital, she opened a stall selling cloth, living an ordinary life, no one knew, she was the former killer Drizzle.
One day, a descendant named Jiang Asheng appeared in the capital, helping people run errands and deliver letters. After the two became acquainted, Jiang Asheng often appeared in front of Zeng Jing. There were often thunderstorms in the capital, and whenever this happened, no matter how far away Jiang Asheng was, he would rush over to help Zeng Jing clean up the stalls.
On such rainy days, the two stood under the eaves of the tea house to avoid the rain, saying a few unhurried and unhurried words, Jiang Asheng was shy, and had no money to invite Zeng Jing to drink a cup of tea, but the affection between the two gradually arose under this eaves.
One day, Zeng Jing asked Jiang Asheng: I ask you one thing, you want to answer me before the rain stops: "Will you marry me?"
So, the two became married and became husband and wife. The days after marriage were bitter and trivial, but Zeng Jing's heart was extremely at ease.
Until the two people went to Tongbao Qianzhuang together to get money, they encountered bandits, in order to protect her husband, Zeng Jing had to intervene, and thus exposed her identity to Black Stone.
Back at home, Jiang Asheng was unusually calm, and he only said one word to Zeng Jing: "You used to be a thief of Jiang Yang, and you are still my mother." ”
In fact, Jiang Asheng already knew that Zeng Jing was Drizzle, and he himself was Zhang Renfeng, who had been killed by Drizzle.
At first, Drizzle obeyed Lu Zhu's words and sent rama's body to the Yunhe Temple in Nanjing, where he handed it over to the presiding master, the monk. There, Drizzle asked the foolish monk why Lu Zhu said to her before he died: I would like to incarnate into a stone bridge, subject to five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, five hundred years of rain...
The foolish monk told her a story: Before the Buddha's disciple Ananda left home, he met a young girl on the path and fell in love with her from then on. The Buddha asked him, how much do you like that girl? Ananda replied, I would like to incarnate as a stone bridge, subject to five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, five hundred years of rain, but please this girl walk over the bridge.
The confusion of the drizzle was answered here in the idiot. During the three months of entanglement, Lu Zhu fell in love with the cruel and cold female killer Drizzle. How can we achieve "as good as we come and do not live up to our promises"? Lu Zhu replied with death. He is the one with the highest martial arts in the film, and he easily sees through the loopholes in the drizzle sword method, but how can a buddhist cultivator be moved, so he chooses to die under the drizzle sword, but this evil fate and the drizzle are dissolved.
If she did not meet Lu Zhu, Drizzle would not know how to love, after meeting Lu Zhu, she was willing to put down the sword in her hand, and from then on she became invisible in the city and became an ordinary woman. Drizzle found the divine doctor Li Ghost Hand, gave up his original appearance, and became Zeng Jing.
And Zhang Renfeng, after being hit by the drizzle and falling on the stone bridge, he did not die, because his heart was on the right side, he was saved by Li Ghost's hand, and he also changed his appearance and changed his name to Jiang Asheng, in order to find the Black Stone Organization to avenge.
The encounter with Zeng Jing was deliberately approached by Jiang Asheng.
When Zeng Jing showed his skills, Ah Sheng's calmness; and when the Black Stone Group came to the door, Ah Sheng went home and saw the three stones, but he deliberately pretended to be home late. Zeng Jing made a deal with the Wheel King to exchange Rama's body for her and Ah Sheng's freedom. Who knows, after the fact, the Reincarnation King repented and wanted to kill the two of them.
Even if she was injured, she had to rush home and tell Ah Sheng to leave. She didn't know, after she fell, Ah Sheng smiled and said: "Mother, it seems that you are in a lot of trouble this time." He removed the doors and windows, waited quietly for the killer to come to the door, took out his rusty sword from the ground, and slowly sharpened it.
A relationship between Jiang Asheng and Zeng Jing is revealed in Li Ghost's hand. Zeng Jing asked Jiang Asheng: Have you ever really treated me? Ah Sheng replied: I can forgive you for killing me, but what you can't forgive is that you killed my father.
So, she confronted Ah Sheng, ate him a turtle, and stabbed his sword down. She wanted to make the Wheel King think that Ah Sheng was dead. If she could succeed in killing the Wheel King, of course it would be good, and if not, Ah Sheng could also save her life, which was the only thing she could do for him.
At the end of the story, a sword-wounded drizzle wanted to walk to Ah Sheng's side, and his mouth was still murmuring: I would like to incarnate into a stone bridge, subject to five hundred years of wind, sun, rain...
She broke her promise to Lu Zhu and killed the Reincarnation King, and she wanted to make an end to Jiang Asheng's revenge for killing her father.
Watching her slowly fall, Ah Sheng forgave her. In fact, why didn't he have emotion? If he hadn't had affection for her, he would have known her life. To say anything in order to wipe out blackstone is to deceive oneself.
When he woke up, he went up and picked her up, and she said, "When you get back, you'll write a letter of resignation and leave me off." He looked at her with a hard smile on his face: What a stupid thing to say, the days are still long.
The story ends here, Zeng Jing and Jiang Asheng, from then on, return to the life of ordinary people, forgive each other for their concealment, deception and hatred, and start over.
In the story, Lu Zhu, who is skilled in Buddhist martial arts, no one is his opponent, but he has lost to his heart, from the moment he is emotional to Drizzle, he has become the former Ananda, an emotional Buddhist disciple, he only has one death in exchange for drizzle's rebirth. Lu Zhu's love and love have gone beyond the love of men and women, but the compassion for the world, the rebirth of the drizzle, and how much less bloodshed and killing are lost on the rivers and lakes, from this point of view, his death is indeed worth it.
The Reincarnation King is the leader of the Black Stone, and his other identity is that of a nine-pin eunuch in the palace, who has been at the bottom of the eunuch for fifty years, so he hates the eunuch, he wants to be a real man, which is why he wants to do everything he can to seize Rama's body.
Isn't that ironic? The people of the Blackstone Organization tried their best, born into death, just for a impossible thing. This is a big joke, but the wheel king believes.
There is also Ye Xiaoqing, she has been a substitute for Drizzle from the beginning, whether in position or emotionally, but the stand-in is always inferior to the main lord, when she found out that the Wheel King was actually the secret of the eunuch, the Wheel King solved her without mercy.
When Drizzle and the Wheel King dueled, she once laughed that the Wheel King could only be a eunuch forever, the Wheel King was the secret of the eunuch, only Ye Xiaoqing knew, and Ye Xiaoqing was a stand-in for Drizzle, and when the Wheel King and Drizzle met again, he said to Drizzle: What? Don't like that original face?
What kind of past has there been between Drizzle and the Wheel King? In the heart of the Wheel King, what he really loved and liked was drizzle, and when he buried Ye Qingqing alive, he told her that he liked her too much, so he had to bury her under the bridge, and he could think of her every time he passed. The Wheel King really wanted to be buried under the bridge, and what he always remembered was the drizzle.
"Sword Rain" is different from previous martial arts films, it does not have any national righteousness, family and country grievances, and some, just the desires of small people. The Wheel King wants to be a real man, Lei Bin wants money, the drama artist wants to restore his health, Ye Qingqing's desire for sex, Zeng Jing wants a free and peaceful life, and Jiang Asheng wants to avenge his father. It is their desires that make a personal character come alive, and the quarrels between the rivers and lakes are not precisely because of people's desires?
However, people's desires are endless, and sometimes, only by giving up can they be free, and others can also complete themselves, just like Lu Zhu in the play.