Samurai, as a symbol of traditional Japanese culture, has been passed down in Japanese society. The loyal and undaunted character of the Japanese samurai can still be seen in modern Japanese people, and the spirit of Bushido is also the most profound impression of Western society on this mysterious Eastern country. In the history of Japanese cinema, works on the samurai genre have emerged in an endless stream, and works such as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and "Chaos" have established the position of Japanese cinema in world culture.
As the history of the Japanese shogunate progressed, the samurai were no longer just a military group at the beginning, but gradually evolved into a unique social class. The word samurai originally meant "samurai" in Japanese, and just as the "knight" in Western culture does not necessarily ride a horse, the Japanese samurai gradually became a special class that specialized in the service of lords who did not cultivate, and there are many films about these alternative samurai in Japanese movies.
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In the Edo period, people who specialized in cooking for lords were called "kitchen knife samurai". Although they also kept their knives in their hands all day, they faced not the enemies on the battlefield every day, but the fish on the cutting board. The male protagonist from a family of chefs is obviously not satisfied with spending his days in the kitchen, and although his father is already the royal cook of the Kaga domain, he still cannot let the young man settle into the work of a chef.
The dream of the "kitchen knife samurai" in the movie is of course to become a real samurai, but the reality is cruel, when the hero is beaten into a ball of sushi by his opponent in the martial arts training field, he finally understands that he is the life of a cook after all. So he painstakingly studied cooking with the help of his wife, and finally inherited his father's mantle and became a royal chef.
The real protagonist of this alternative "samurai" movie is actually Ueto Sai, who plays the wife of a samurai, a Japanese national actress who looks like a generation of superstar Momoe Yamaguchi, who has become popular with popular Japanese dramas such as "Naoki Hanzawa" and "Day Face". In the movie, it is the lord maid played by Sai Ueto who helps her samurai husband become a good cook with her superb cooking skills.
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In addition to the samurai who made dishes with kitchen knives, there was also a group of "poison test samurai" who served the lord. The film "Samurai's Point" starring Takuya Kimura, the Japanese drama Tenno, depicts such a special profession of samurai groups, and unlike the light-hearted comedy route of "Samurai's Recipe", this movie starring King Kimura is full of sadness. After all, exquisite Japanese cuisine is delicious in one movie and becomes a lethal weapon in another.
The movie "A Point of the Samurai" depicts a poignant story of a low-ranking samurai with extraordinary skills who has to become a "test poison samurai" in order to make a living, and is blinded by eating spoiled food. His wife had to commit herself to power in order to keep her husband's meager share, and King Kimura angrily threw his poor wife out of the house and resolutely challenged the evil man who was taking advantage of the danger. In a duel, the samurai who was already a wasted man actually defeated his opponent, took revenge and revenge, and then reunited with his wife.
Takuya Kimura, who was at the peak of her appearance at the time, shaved off a long flowing hair for this movie, and left the Japanese samurai standard "moon head". Playing the wife is the famous Takarazuka Song and Dance Troupe's former leader Hua Dan Tanli, this film is her first film after leaving the troupe, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the Japan Academy Awards that year.
The director of this film, Yoji Yamada, is another film master in the Japanese film industry besides Akira Kurosawa, and the representative work of the national treasure director who has always paid attention to the life of the low-level civilians is the classic movie "The Story of Injiro". His films between 2002 and 2006, "Twilight Kiyobei", "Hidden Sword Ghost Claw" and "Samurai's One Point", are known as the "Samurai Trilogy", and these three films also describe the story of Japan's ancient low-level samurai, allowing people to see the true side of Japanese samurai.
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There have been very few films about finance in the history of world cinema, and the theme of the 2010 Japanese costume film turned out to be such a boring profession.
The protagonist's profession is also unrelated to the dance of swords and guns, and this group of samurai who take care of the property of the lord is called "counting people", that is, accountants in modern society. The loyal character of the Japanese samurai is fully utilized in this profession, and in order to expose his colleagues who have embezzled public food, the male protagonist must find out the numbers even if he offends his superiors.
The male protagonist of this slightly boring movie is the famous Masato Sakai, who later starred in the mythical drama "Naoki Hanzawa", which was hailed as the highest-rated TV series in the Heisei era, and created a famous meme.
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These alternative "samurai" movies show us that in addition to fighting and killing, there is another unknown side of the Japanese samurai. In Japanese history, samurai have long been more than mere military personnel, but have become part of Japanese culture. Although the samurai as a specific social class has disappeared from modern Japanese society, the spirit of "samurai" has always been passed down in this country and has become the national character of the Japanese people. Today's Japan is undoubtedly a modern developed country, but the persistent and often extreme personality in their bones is always less reassuring. In all walks of life, you can still see the characters in these "samurai" movies, which is why Japan always makes people feel familiar and strange.