▶No.10 The Tale of the Rainy Moon, 1953
Douban score: 8.5/10
During the Sengoku period, a small mountain village near Lake Biwa was inhabited by Genjuro and his wife Miyagi, as well as his brother-in-law Fujibei and sister Ahama. They make a living by opening small porcelain kilns and firing porcelain, and during the war, Genjuro wants to make a windfall fortune while Fujibei wants to become a samurai, but the terrible facts are in front of them.
【Film Review】
♦ What people covet, a few are true. By no one knows
♦ People who are now calling for war all day should really be shown this film by shuā
♦ Kenji Mizoguchi is a director with a great oriental charm. The same has a special preference for long shots, but Mizoguchi's style is completely different from Ozu's. Kenji Mizoguchi argues that Japanese cinema "should stand quietly in front of simple and ordinary Japanese paintings to feel it." He introduces the fluid, slow passage of time and the continuous changes in the space that accompany it into his narrative style, which are expressed in his paintings. Just like this strange conversation between Genjuro and Ruoxia, the director handled the time very virtually. It is difficult to fully link the time of reality to the time it takes for the story to take place. The use of just a few alternate scenes full of imagery advances the story. by Tao Tao IV
♦ Kenji Mizoguchi is recognized as a "master of feminism" in Japan. He has spent his life making films that focus on the fate of japan's lower-class women, especially prostitutes, a group that is "insulted and damaged." With an attitude of great concern for the fate of women, he celebrates the great sentiments of women and criticizes the Japanese male society that has caused them tragic fate. By the desire to be born
▶No.9 Twenty-Four Eyes/ Twenty-Four Pupils 1954
Douban score: 8.6/10
♦ Looking at this restored masterpiece today, the strong lyrical meaning is still empathetic, and it is this that makes me have a desire for the film to express. Lyricism in literary and artistic works, now seems to have become the object of ridicule, people can not stand the pure emotional expression, think that it is too sensational and too false, so the collective turn to the deconstruction of emotion and nonsense, it seems that only in this way, the hidden emotions under the joke are real, even sincere. by aratana
♦ Crying. Don't be too slow. Although it is inevitable that the style of Shochiku Folk Drama is pretentious, only the calm and idyllic scenery of the Fish Village in the Seto Inland Sea, the implicit euphemism of anti-war arguments, do not want war heroes, only want their families to return safely and safely, preferring to be cowards. It's worth revisiting. By good luck
♦ Brother Yibei and I discussed the composition of the picture very well, slowly and quietly to get your tears out of the heart of the film. by jiji
▶No.8 《无义战》 Battle of The Unsung 1973
Douban score: 7.8/10
In 21 Showa, demobilized soldier Masazo Hirono was arrested for participating in a gang fight in the downtown area, and in prison he became acquainted with Wakasahiro, a young cadre of the Doi group, and became a brother. After being released on bail by Yoshio Yamamori, the leader of the Mountain Guard, Hirono was released from prison and worshiped under his door, becoming Yamamori's right-hand man. However, Guangneng can see through the essence of the so-called gang benevolence in a series of events.
♦ Jianghu righteousness is a very blood-boiling thing, people who can be moved by it must also have an idealistic complex, this elegy of "benevolence and righteousness" can not freeze the surge of blood, just like all gangster epics, the greatest sadness is when we find out: the original once again as a political puppet. By King Kong laughs
♦ There is more than enough life, and there is not enough depth. By no one knows
♦ History of the Yamaguchi Formation. by Mr. Poison
♦ It's a masterpiece, a movie that definitely deserves to be seen again. Just watched the first ten minutes of "War without Mercy", and I concluded. The film begins with the mushroom cloud of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, and only ten minutes after the opening, the names of seven or eight main characters are shaken out at once, three forces (plus four us troops), rape, a gangster beheading incident, a murder incident, and then the protagonist played by Kanhara, Hirono Masazo, is imprisoned and begins to associate with the protagonist of another clue. The explanation of these plots is completely unfolded in a chaotic background, but it is clearly explained. The unique sense of movement of handheld photography, you push me to the explosive performance, and at once pull people into the streets of Hiroshima after the war. This opening chapter of Fukasaku Shinji is domineering, completely in an involuntary posture to press the audience's head into the reality of street crime. by Wind Falcon
▶No.7 Red Desk Red Murder intention, 1964
Douban score: 8.2/10
The Takahashi family of three lives in a small, simple house. The male protagonist, Shoichi, works in the library of the University of Tokyo and maintains a five-year unrequited love affair with the female clerk Yoshiko, while his wife, Sadako, is born to Shoichi's father and maid, and the takahashi family's life is full of dangers and life.
The film won the fourth place in the top ten Japanese films that year, and ranked seventh among the 100 works of the "Movie Shunbao".
♦ The heroine looks like a white rabbit, but in fact, she has a lot of numbers in her heart. by drapery
♦ A fiery tribute to the primitive vitality, dignity of life, desire for revenge, and gentle humanity of women. Female life is humiliating and tough, strong as the source of the sun. The sick male's body is like a remnant vine, and it is necessary to climb the female tree of life to get a little vitality. by movingdust
♦ From Masahira Imamura's perspective, the daily life of a wayward man and a pathetic woman is intertwined with the smell of lust and death. While awakenable women obviously know better how to adapt to the remnants, men who awaken women are willing to sleep. When the bellows rat is reborn, the other person in the eye is nothing more than a sick bug. By bad taste
▶No. 6 Rashomon Rashomon (1950)
Douban score: 8.7/10
Rashomon Gate, the main south gate of Kyoto, Japan. The monk, the firewood cutter and the beggar sheltered under the city gate, and the three of them chatted, and the topic began, and the prelude to the story began: a samurai and his wife passed through a barren mountain and encountered an accident. The wife was insulted, and the samurai was brutally killed. How did the tragedy come about? The murderer, the wife, and the witch who testified by the ghost of the samurai all have their own accounts.
There is only one truth, but the purpose for which each person gives testimony is different. In order to beautify their own morality, alleviate their sins, and cover up their mistakes, everyone begins to narrate a version of the story that glorifies themselves. The tragedy on the barren mountain has become a fog that cannot be clearly seen.
After talking, the rain passed. The woodcutter found a weeping abandoned baby next to Rashomon. He decided to adopt it and carried the baby into the depths of the setting sun.
♦ Rashomon Gate, the main south gate of Kyoto, Japan. The monk, the firewood chopper and the beggar sheltered from the rain under the city gate, and the three of them chatted idly, and the topic began, and the prelude to the story began:
A samurai and his wife passed through a barren mountain and encountered an accident. The wife was insulted, and the samurai was brutally killed. How did the tragedy come about? The murderer, the wife, and the witch who testified by the ghost of the samurai all have their own accounts.
After talking, the rain passed. The woodcutter found a weeping abandoned baby next to Rashomon. He decided to adopt it and carried the baby into the depths of the setting sun. by ViViAN LiAnG
♦ Of the films I've seen, Rashomon is undoubtedly a masterpiece. It reveals the truth of life, like a sharp blade cutting through the skin, both painful and fast. The truth is that in this world there are only facts, not truths. The more narrators there are, the farther we are from the truth. Everyone sees the world from their own perspective, obeys the rational assumptions of economics, and pursues the maximization of their own interests. Samurai, robbers, wives, and farmers are nothing short of the same.
Therefore, the truth is ugly, the truth is not important, things happen, the key is how to face, how to solve the problem, give tomorrow an answer and reason, rather than entangled with the past. Walking into "Rashomon Gate" and then walking out of "Rashomon Gate", a person matures. This is the charm and value of artistic masterpieces. By tide hit the empty city
▶No.5 Taiyaku at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate Taiyoden (1957)
Douban score: 7.7/10
It is a typical Japanese black humor comedy, and the protagonist of the film, Saheiji, is a liar character, and the film depicts how he skillfully performed deception in the harsh brothels of the Edo period, mixing food between characters from various classes to show the good and flawed little people.
But the laughter is heavy and sad. From beginning to end, the film runs through the stand-up comedy that the Japanese public loves, and the Japanese stand-up comedy known as "Rakugo" complements the storyline of Sagairaji, forming a super costume satirical comedy.
The two actors who starred in the film, Frankie Ki and Yujiro Ishihara, were popular stars who had swept the Japanese film industry. The screenwriter was Shohei Imamura, who later became a famous director. Therefore, the audience was particularly impressed.
♦ A comedy of all beings in the last years of the shogunate. Simple and gorgeous. by MetalSparky
♦ So famous, but I don't know the point... by お狐
♦ It's really interesting to watch him move around, that's all. by a lump of flowers
♦ As the background of the movie is said, it will not be long before the Meiji Restoration, the changing society is always full of impetuosity and contradictions, in this dark side, there is a seed of light, and Takasugi Shinsaku happens to be an indispensable seed of this era, of course, there is Also Jun Inoue, this guy plays the most critical role in another play in the life of the character, he successfully gathers prostitutes, brothel assistants, heroes, comedy masters, liars, and historical promoters, without showing any horse's feet, just like the clowns in his many roles. His heroic act of saving the country is also extremely conspicuous, and more people need to pay tribute to him. by LouVitt
▶No.4 Tokyo Monogatari Tokyo Monogatari (1953)
Douban score: 9.1/10
Tokyo is unfamiliar to the elderly, and it is not much better in the children's home. The eldest son was busy at work and didn't have time to take them out to play. Moving to her daughter's house, she is still trapped and conflicted every day. The old couple gradually understood the situation of their children, and their old friends in Tokyo were not doing well. Only the widowed daughter-in-law Noriko is very filial to the old man. After that, the old man embarked on the road home, but ten days before and after...
♦ When I first arrived in Tokyo, my mother said, "It turns out that Tokyo is so close." When she decided to leave Tokyo, my mother said, "Tokyo is really too far away." "by [Spirit]
♦ In the first few scenes, I felt extremely contrived, where did everyone say that it was so good? Looking patiently further, Fang found that under the superficial politeness and smile, the deep sadness in his heart. "Actually, we are very happy." "Yeah, actually we're happy!" When I am old, will I look at my wife and laugh like this? by Veronica
♦ At the same time, the director also let the characters and stories flow naturally. The story has no significant clues or plots and is made up entirely of the little things in life: packing up, eating, talking, talking on the phone. Everyone in the movie is basically "complete" in every plot. The director will let the father and mother sit quietly and slowly sort out the luggage, discuss the itinerary, whether the younger son will go to the station to pick them up; let the neighbor aunt appear at the window and ask them to complete a conversation about the weather in Tokyo for their children; at the end of the camera, the father finally finds the air cushion that cannot be found at first. This is what life looks like. By Saturday I'm going to take a break
▶No.3 Hunger Strait Hunger Strait (1965)
The film is based on Mizumi's mystery novel of the same name, and has since been adapted to the television screen three times. The film won five awards: The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay in 1966, the 1966 Film Shunbun Award for Best Actor (Rintaro Mikuni), the 1966 Mainichi Film Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress (Sachiko Sasuke), Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Junsaburo Company).
♦ When I crossed the river and came to the underworld, I knew I would never come back. There is a road to hell, but there is no way back—a curse that fate cannot escape. by warp
♦ "On your path in life, trees have never grown!" The use of the growing tree as a symbol of salvation is a clear indication of the influence of Christian culture on which the creators were influenced, but the final redemption with suicide at the end is undoubtedly a typical Japanese beauty of death. In "Hungry Straits", Uchida Tumeng uses the Christian idea of original sin, the Buddhist theory of causation, the Shinto nature worship, etc. to weave a story with strong practical significance, and the desolation and emptiness behind the era and the human heart. by East meets West
♦ Ishikawa Koyuri's song "Tsugaru Strait" can be described: "When I saw the seagull that was about to freeze, I couldn't help but cry." Inuyasha Doryoshi, played by Rintaro Mikuni, plunged headlong into the Pacific Ocean where gulls and herons flew back from the deck, and sank his lifelong misfortune, and this trapped beast sprang out of the wasteland of Hokkaido, trembled in the Tsugaru Strait, and slid into the glory of dark fate in poverty, and must return to die in the ocean. by inland flying fish
♦ Three paragraphs (compositional style, camera movement), social reasoning, and the replacement of symbolic meaning. by Amushi
▶No.2 Floating clouds (1955)
Douban score: 8.7/10
During World War II, Sachiko Koda, who was sent to Vietnam under Japanese occupation, met Kengo Tomioka, her husband, and fell in love. After returning home after defeat, Sachiko finds Tomioka's home in the decaying streets and finds that he still lives with his wife and is not divorced. After they came out, they secretly met and continued to communicate secretly, but Tomioka's attitude was still ambiguous and there were many excuses.
♦ Ozu once said that there are only two movies that I can't make, and those are the Gion sisters in Mizoguchi and the floating clouds of Naruse. By sleep go
♦ I think I found the most appropriate word to describe this film: innocence. Zhu Tiantian in "The Tale of the Wild Man" is described as a shu and Ozu in this way: The person in the Naruse movie, the actress Hideko Takayama, looks back at the performance method. There are not many location scenes in Naruse's films, the two always talk while walking, sometimes Naruse uses the track to walk with the characters and shoot, the most special thing is to let one person take a step forward and turn around, the other person rushes forward, and the two talk side by side again. The movement of the camera is replaced by the characters, and the camp produces a delicate rhyme. by wood
♦ Finally watched "Floating Clouds", which I have admired for a long time. It's the most desperate movie I've seen so far. If I still have unrealistic fantasies about the fragility and inadequacy of human nature and about men after watching such a movie, then I should immediately cut my stomach. Joan Croft in "The Devil of the Sea" has a line that there are many ways to die, one of which is to marry an artist. Then there is also a way for women to die, and it is also the way that many women choose, that is, to love a man who is uncertain.
▶No.1 Seven Samurai Seven Samurai (1954)
During the Sengoku period in Japan, a small mountain village faced the threat of mountain thieves, and in order to protect the autumn harvest, the village elders decided to ask samurai to protect the safety of the village, but the only reward was three meals a day of white rice...
♦ A delicate tragedy. by Little Red Riding Hood Blue and White
♦ In a chaotic world, the most difficult thing is to persist, not to fall in morality, and not to extinguish the fire of the heart. For most ordinary people like me, who only want to live at home, this sentence inevitably seems arrogant and big and inappropriate, but for the Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, this kind of persistence is a spiritual exercise that must be faced every day, and the unavoidable foundation of the body: persistence or abandonment, poverty or wealth, cutting the belly or surviving? In the shot, it is a dilapidated city, a barren countryside, a child with a vegetable face, an old man with a heart like a dead wood, an unquenchable smoke, a crowd of people running rampant, a muddy and bumpy road......... By the rain of the valley
♦ Why does it give a refreshing feeling? Experienced fans can already see from the picture that there are a large number of panoramas, long-range, medium and close-up shots of frequent switching. Fans who know something about Akira Kurosawa may also know that this film pioneered Akira Kurosawa's "multi-camera photography" approach. The action of this film is actually not fancy at all, and the flowers are spent on the technique! It is the technique that has made Akira Kurosawa's realistic style of action film shooting successful. by ghost-tailed gulls