"The sky is also drunk with cherry blossoms, and the cloud feet are staggering."
March and April are when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
Crimson petals flutter and fall in the spring breeze, and this scene is called "cherry blossom snow" in Japanese.
As the brightest actress in Japan's late last century film industry, Iwashita Shima has a pure and enchanting beauty like flying cherry blossoms.
In 1977, with her performance in "Lonely Blind Girl Ah Ling", she swept the awards for best actress in major film circles that year. More than thirty years later, Shima, who is over the age of hana, was selected as the sixth of Japan's "Ten Most Beautiful Actresses in a Hundred Years".
Before the cherry blossom viewing tide this year, Maki also introduced a cherry blossom talk starring Shima:
"Sakura No Mori: Under Full Bloom"
The film is adapted from the short story "Under the Blooming Cherry Blossom Forest" by the famous "rogue faction" literary standard-bearer Ango Sakaguchi.
Both the original and the film version have received many praise for their bizarre atmosphere, gorgeous scenery and bizarre story.
The world praises cherry blossoms as beautiful, but before the Edo period, people only felt horror when they mentioned cherry blossoms. Legend has it that travelers passing through the cherry blossom forest in full bloom will fall into frenzy and delirium, and if they escape, they will lose confidence in life from then on.
The mountain thief Shigemaru made a living by snatching people's clothes and hunting wild animals.
Even such a cruel person was afraid of the cherry blossom forest and did not dare to go near.
During a robbery of the Nobles of Kyoto, he accidentally lifted the veil of a companion woman.
Just such a shocking glimpse, the woman's noble and elegant beautiful face made Fan Maru lose his mind.
When he returned to god, he had already killed the nobleman with a knife in his hand and snatched the woman Akiko.
Surprisingly, Akiko not only did not resist at all, but instead smiled and asked Toshimaru to carry herself back.
"If you want me to be your wife, how can you not even have this little strength?"
Shishimaru toiled and carried her along the mountain, flaunting his power and wealth along the way—the whole mountain was regarded as his property by Shishimaru.
Akiko was indifferent.
The relationship between the two people is as it is at this time:
One commanded peacefully and comfortably from a high place, and the other did his best in the lower position out of admiration.
From then on, Akiko's twisted desire for control began to spread.
Back at Shishimaru's residence in the mountains, Akiko first willfully and arbitrarily asked him to end up with 7 ex-wives, and then picked up wild game that was not exquisite enough and had no fun in life.
Shigemaru did it one by one. In order to satisfy Akiko's desires, he even moved to Kyoto, where he hated.
The author of the novel, Yasugo Sakaguchi, once appealed: "Fall, in order to live." ”
And the female characters he writes are also full of depravity - they must have a cruel and vicious heart under their good faces.
As the heroine of Sakaguchi's masterpiece, Akiko gradually embodied the nature of tyranny and cruelty after settling in Kyoto. She instructed Toshimaru to hunt the heads of people of different classes for herself, and then held these heads and smiled and made house wine.
The camera turns, and outside the empty wooden house, dozens of heads are randomly abandoned on the promenade.
The graphics are simply creepy!
In the movie, Shishimaru is afraid of cherry blossoms because "when you arrive at the flowers, you will feel the wind whining, but there is no wind around you." It can be said that his fear stems from the unknown.
Akiko is a woman like a cherry blossom, she is completely different from the wives that Shishimaru snatched before, and her life is exquisite and meticulous.
Shishimaru loves Akiko, but he also fears her, because the noble daughter Akiko also symbolizes the unknown to Yamao Shishimaru.
As autumn returns, Shishimaru grows tired of the life of beheading people, and he tells Akiko that he plans to return to the mountain forest alone
However, only The Maru could bring Akiko's head. Expediently, she decided to return home with him first.
This time, accompanied by a docile wife, Shishimaru is confident that he will no longer be seduced by the cherry blossom forest, so he plans to enjoy the cherry blossoms along the way.
The breeze blows and the petals flutter down. The ground is covered with fallen flowers, where did these petals fall from?
Surrounded by the silent cherry blossom forest, Shishimaru was finally lost.
He mistakes Akiko for a white-haired demon and strangles her in the fallen flowers.
Losing his wife, Shimaru cried bitterly and reached out to brush away the petals on Akiko's smiling face.
The two disappeared under the cherry blossom trees, leaving only the empty sky and the flowers that spread over the mountains.
There is no doubt that Iwashita Shima is beautiful, and even if he is crazy, he only finds it strange and seductive.
However, such a beautiful woman takes pleasure in playing the head game, and the unusual protagonist setting breaks the traditional Japanese morality that women should abide by.
In addition, the film adds a portrayal of specific groups of people compared to the original work. The princess who steals and loves people, the old monk who raises small ones, all bitterly mock the decay and absurdity of the elite.
As a movie with the label of "horror film", "Sakura No Mori" does not actually have ghosts, on the contrary, its scenes are full of sunshine and bright colors, which should be contradictory. However, the eerie story and the expressive soundtrack make fans feel as if they can feel the cold wind blowing behind their ears after watching the movie.
Some people say that this movie is about love, such as netizen @ Iceberg Lee said:
"In fact, you and I have a beautiful dream, the number of qi has long been exhausted, and it is useless to start again."
Some people also think that it seems to talk about love and crazy demons, but in fact, it is a metaphor for Buddhism, and finally the two crazy demons disappear into the cherry blossoms, which is also an exhaustion of beauty to bury ugliness.
There are contradictions everywhere in the film, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, black and white are not obvious boundaries, perhaps as the author himself believes in the "fall" doctrine - only fall is the way back, it is the most frightening place.
We do not judge the right and wrong behavior of people in this story, because its philosophical connotations are beyond the secular ethical meaning.
Perhaps only when we see the wind blowing down the cherry blossom rain can we feel the desolation in it.