The reason why the snow leopard drama can get a lot of praise, in addition to the high degree of restoration of its confrontation background and the attractive plot, there is also a point, that is, its successful portrayal of the character.
Takeshita Jun, a native of Kyoto, is from the Takeshita family of the Kyoto Clan in Japan, and is also a disciple of the Great Japanese Kendo School, Kitatsu Ichikatsu, and a kendo eight-dan level. He graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer College and the Japanese Army University, and was later sent to study at the Military Academy in Berlin, Germany, because of his excellent grades.
According to the normal thinking to analyze, this is a typical Representative of Japanese militarist officers, who should have qualifications, academic qualifications, and door valves, if it is in some TV series, Takeshita Toshi will definitely be portrayed as a vicious and brutal, and extremely cunning and difficult to deal with, inhuman Japanese officers.
However, the snow leopard broke through this point, it can be said that the character of Takeshita Toshi is also a very successful one in this drama - he has a conscience, humanity, and does not hate Chinese because of the hatred between the two countries, of course, it is undeniable that in the context of the time, there is almost no one like Takeshita who has a friendly attitude towards China, so Takeshita's image shaping has also aroused the controversy and attention of many people, and began to re-examine the very few Japanese soldiers who have not lost their conscience.
Let's talk about Takeshita Toshi, if it weren't for the background of the War of Resistance, if it wasn't for the status of a Japanese samurai family and an officer, then Takeshita would even give people the illusion of being a square protagonist.
He is a natural soldier, his own military attainment is extremely strong, his physical quality is also different from ordinary people, his learning ability is very strong, and he is good at understanding other people and other countries, and he is well versed in the essence of knowing oneself and knowing the essence of the soldier who has won every battle, so it can be said that if this is a thorough militarist, it will be an extremely terrible enemy.
He had a very unique and forward-looking strategic vision, believing that Japan and China would eventually be defeated in the war, and that Japan's invasion of China was an extremely unwise choice. He also likes China and Chinese culture, and hopes that the two countries will eventually be friendly and appreciate patriotic people, so he will meet and become friends with the protagonist Zhou Weiguo.
Takeshita is also very good to his friends, for Zhou Weiguo, he did not carry hatred and discrimination, but became his mentor and friend, taught him kendo, taught him Japanese, studied and communicated with him, ate and drank together in life, read books and practiced kendo, and still regarded Zhou Weiguo as his close friend and confidant after Zhou Weiguo broke off relations with Takeshita painting due to the formal war between the two sides.
Many people wondered how a Japanese person in the background would show such a strong friendliness and interest in Chinese and take the initiative to teach him these skills that would be detrimental to the Japanese army in the future, and he replied that I thought my enemies were stronger, so that I would not be lonely. This is undoubtedly an inner monologue emanating from a lonely genius.
It can be said that the character of Takeshita is very plump, and from him, we see more of the Japanese than just brutal stupidity and impotent rage.
Takeshita was such a "non-mainstream" Japanese officer, he was not completely overwhelmed by the fanaticism of militarism, he still had a human conscience that had not been extinguished, and he did not have absolute foolish loyalty to the emperor and the military.
Friends who know a lot about World War II may still see another real historical figure in him- some shadows of japanese officer Nishitake Ichi. This very small number of Japanese troops are doomed to be unpopular in the Japanese army, and naturally it is inevitable that they will end in tragedy.
Although Takeshita has many auras and many admirable places, it does not mean that he has a good ending. First of all, he still came to China as an aggressor, and in essence, he still participated in the invasion of China and was also an aggressor.
Secondly, these "non-mainstream" performances of his, some of his technical and tactical theories, are not understood and tolerated by many Japanese military leaders, but these new tactical theories have actually given the Chinese army a lot of harm.
Takeshita applied the special operations theory he had learned to practice, successfully covering the retreat of a Japanese tank company in the Battle of Nomonkan, and after coming to China, he led a temporary commando team to help the Japanese siege force break through the city of Nanjing (the prototype of the plot here is Takashi Takeshita in the play, and in history, Takashi Rin led his own team to infiltrate Nanjing and break the city) after coming to Shandong, and repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Eighth Route Army and the Nationalist Army.
He immediately issued an invitation after learning of Zhou Weiguo's whereabouts, and wanted to capture or even destroy this former classmate and friend through a kendo competition, but Takeshita finally hesitated, and Zhou Weiguo finally stayed.
Takeshita is struggling and entangled, on the one hand, as a soldier, he can't help himself, and he wants to fight with his old classmates on the battlefield, but he also hates the endless slaughter and bloodshed brought about by the war, and this entanglement intensifies after he learns that his teacher was assassinated by the Japanese military after participating in anti-war activities, and he constantly thinks about the war he participated in and whether the choice he made when he first entered the army was correct, and obviously showed his tiredness of war.
Takeshita also once again demonstrated his unique strategic vision— even in early 1942, a period of repeated victories for the Japanese in the Pacific, he still expected that the war would not last long and would eventually end in Japan's defeat, and he would do his best, as he himself said, to end the war as soon as possible.
Takeshita still participated in one battle after another with the Chinese army in repeated entanglements, which has violated what he said to Zhou Weiguo when he was in Germany, that he joined the military academy not to invade other countries but to defend his own country, perhaps this is not his own wish, but in any case, he still participated, and caused a lot of trouble to the Chinese army.
Takeshita attacked the nationalist positions several times and killed and wounded a large number of Nationalist troops, repeatedly led special forces to cooperate with the main force of the Japanese army to encircle and suppress the Base Area of the Eighth Route Army, and fought back and forth with Zhou Weiguo's commandos, gaining the upper hand several times, but finally lost, but still killed the political commissar who had been with Zhou Weiguo for many years, which made Zhou Weiguo completely disappointed in Takeshita and vowed to kill Takeshita to avenge.
In one battle after another, the two drifted apart on their respective paths. However, Takeshita still hopes to reconcile with Zhou Weiguo, and after capturing Zhou Weiguo's father, he still treats the old man as the elder of his best friend.
The time soon came to the period of the Battle of Yuxianggui, and the War of Resistance was nearing its end. The commando team led by Takeshita Jun fought fiercely again with Zhou Weiguo's special forces, and Takeshita had long expected the outcome of this war, and the Japanese invaders were already gone, so he led his team to resist only slightly before being surrounded by Zhou Weiguo's troops.
The two agreed to fight alone, the two military geniuses finally met on the battlefield, Takeshita learned that Zhou Weiguo lost an arm because of resistance to the Japanese army, cut off an arm on the spot, and took the initiative to lose to Zhou Weiguo, in full of reluctance to friends and sudden relief, let Zhou Weiguo end his life, and said his last wish - in the next life also want to be friends with Weiguo. This is undoubtedly a very tear-jerking scene in the whole play, where two people who should have been best friends end up killing each other on the battlefield.
Zhou Weiguo, who had long been numb to the conquest and killing, was also deeply saddened by the death of this friend, and it could be seen that he did not really hate Takeshita, he hated the Japanese militarism that brought Takeshita into the quagmire of war.
Eventually, he buried Takeshita thickly.
Obviously, Takeshita Toshi was a typical victim of Japanese militarism, and for the unrealistic and barbaric purposes of militarism, he was forced to come to the battlefield, do what he did not want to do, became an aggressor that everyone hated and hated, and was eventually cut off on the battlefield.
But it is such a character that many people hate, the actor who plays Takeshita Toshi, Asano Nagaei (Chinese Geng Changying), acting needless to say, he is also a Chinese-Japanese mixed actor, it can be said that he played the role of a Japanese officer.
If the anti-war drama has successfully created many plump characters of both the Kuomintang and the Communists over the years, such as Li Yunlong and such as the Dragon Article, then in the shaping of the role of the Japanese army, Takeshita Toshi is undoubtedly a very successful one.
Takeshita Toshi let us see a trace of human brilliance that still exists in a very small number of Japanese officers, and also lets us see the poison that militarism brings to a person, which reminds us at all times to guard against the resurgence of militaristic ideas and avoid the emergence of tragic figures such as Takeshita.