In 1961, Akira Kurosawa, the most prominent master in the history of Japanese cinema, collaborated with today's well-known Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakayo, and Joe Shimura to make a movie called "Stick with Heart".
Poster for the movie "Stick of hearts"
Three years later, however, italian director Sergio Leonardo's now near-household name "Red Dead Redemption" was released, and anyone who has seen both films will find that the two films are completely consistent in plot and even in terms of lines. Akira Kurosawa later took him to court, earning Red Dead Redemption 30% of the worldwide box office.
Now, let's take you into the story of the movie "Heart Stick" to deeply understand the spirit of Japan's chivalrous samurai and the entanglement of sword and western films.
Movie "Stick with Heart"
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Ronin samurai Thirty Lang, came to a dilapidated town, found that the peasant life here is miserable, the town's economy is also very depressed, in the tavern owner to understand the situation learned that the two shops in the town for their own interests of their own recruitment, each other to fight for territory, weapons fighting, on weekdays also often bully the people, but the people in the town do not resist, so Thirty Lang decided to stay for the people to get rid of these two big tumors that endanger the town.
The samurai spirit of Japan originated from the Kamakura shogunate and was formed by absorbing Confucian and Buddhist ideas in the Edo period. It mainly includes the eight points of fame, loyalty, courage, righteousness, etiquette, sincerity, gram, and benevolence.
The most obvious embodiment of Sanshiro, played by Toshiro Mifune, is the three points of "benevolence, courage and righteousness".
After learning what happened to the town, it was "benevolent" to decide to stay and eliminate harm for the people, and it was the benevolence of the chivalrous guest who sacrificed his life for the people.
In the face of the two land snakes far more than their own, it is "courage" to still fight with them, and it is the courage not to shrink back in the face of a powerful enemy.
Climax: Under the provocation of Sanshiro, the Tokutoshi Emon family and the Kiyobei family fought a decisive battle, because the Toku right guard door family's Ōnosuke returned to the family and brought back revolvers and superb schemes, making the gap between the two families that were evenly matched widened, Toku right guard gate successfully eliminated The Kiyobei guard, Andero was also found to have let go of Toku right guard's lover was imprisoned and beaten, and then escaped on his own, was rescued by the tavern owner, and placed in a small temple on the outskirts, waiting for revenge.
The movie "Heart Stick" Thirty Lang's plan was discovered
In the movie "Stick of Hearts", Thirty Lang was severely beaten
After understanding the strength of the two families, they chose to fan the wind and ignite the fire, intensified the struggle between the two families, and successfully destroyed one of them, if it were not for the thank-you letter of thanks from the lover of the rescued Deyou Weimen, so that his plan was exposed, otherwise he could destroy the two families, which is the embodiment of "wisdom".
The role of Sanshilang is somewhat like the ancient Chinese chivalrous guest, who sees uneven roads and draws swords to help. Then "The thing whisked away, hiding deep with the name." The ancient Chinese chivalry emphasizes a "for the country and the people", and this chivalrous style, which is deeply rooted in the Chinese thought, has been mixed by Akira Kurosawa to form the spirit of Bushido expressed in his films.
Sanshiro says goodbye to the tavern owner
The movie "Stick of Hearts" ends
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Obviously, "Stick of Hearts" is a sword film.
Stills from "Stick of hearts"
Sword and sword films, as the name suggests, are films with sword duels and slashing as the main plot, and it is consistent with Western westerns and Chinese chivalrous films in terms of genre. Most of them are the story of a "ranger" character with high martial skills and extraordinary skills to punish evil and promote good.
The final duel of "Heart Stick"
Japanese sword films have been carried forward by Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi and others, and even influenced Western films in the West, the best evidence of which is that "Heart Stick" and "Red Dead Redemption" are two films that are completely consistent in plot. In the early days, Westerns influenced Japanese sword films, and Akira Kurosawa's "Heart Stick" successfully fed back Westerns.
Stills from Masaki Kobayashi's "Cut Belly"
From the plot point of view, chivalrous films, sword films and Westerns are surprisingly similar, but in-depth discovery of chivalrous films and sword films are more similar, Japanese culture has long been influenced by Chinese Confucian culture, so the two should belong to the same origin, Westerns are slightly different, in fact, all three reflect people's cognition of heroes, chivalry cognition, so as three important genres in the history of film, they are just people's understanding of "chivalry and righteousness" under different concepts.
In our concept, the chivalrous should be the kind of "thing that goes away", a dashing worldly high-ranking person. Just like the last back of Toshiro Mifune in "Heart Stick".
The end of "Stick of Hearts"
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