Author: Green Stream
Watching the domestic animation "White Snake. When I was surprised to see a new story of the unfinished love of the demon, and the special effects and characters and scene design were very good. The story is not at all the cold rice of "The Legend of the White Snake", but you can also see the nutrients absorbed from Xu Ke, "The Tale of Hui Ye Ji", "The Pupil of Asura City", etc., and integrate Liu Zongyuan's "Snake Catcher Says", but I personally think this is also very good, take its essence and justify itself, many Disney stories are also similar cores, but can still bring people a sense of freshness. Whitesnake is more fresh to me than some of Disney's xx Wonderland series, because in addition to being good-looking, it is not preachy, and as a cartoon, it is too rare.
In the story of the former ghost, I especially like "Asura Castle Pupil", which is a stage play created by the Japanese Sense Line Theater Company, written by Nakajima, written by Nakajima, premiered in 1987, and ushered in the best cast in the history of the play in 2003, the grand duke of the Kabuki family Goryeo House, Ichikawa Somegoro, played the male protagonist Sick Leaves, 30 years old, his appearance is still at his peak, and the female lead is Takarazuka's pillar Tenkai Yuki, I Haigo is rare to play a woman. The success of the drama led to the release of a film version in 2005, directed by Yojiro Takita (works: "Yin and Yang Division", "Entering the Funeral Division"), starring Ichikawa Sogoro and Riki Miyazawa.
The story can be divided into three time periods:
1. Now
Edo Castle, where humans and demons coexist.
He, the chief disciple of the thirteenth generation of Abe Haruaki and the strongest ghost killer of the Oni Imperial Gate, went out of the door. Forget the responsibilities and sins, giggle on the wandering world, become an actor in a troupe, have no past, no future, and live in the present. It's been five years of wandering.
She, who has lost her memory, whose life is unknown, who sells art during the day, steals at night, and is inexplicably involved in a conspiracy. Five years on the move.
Love at first sight, several seductions. Pity the same disease, the opposite sex attracts. It is difficult to help oneself, life and death are promised. As a folk proverb in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, It is not a poisonous tongue that does not block the road, it is not a who does not give a wife.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future?
2. The past
Five years ago, it was a bloody night. He couldn't help himself from killing a five-year-old girl. Five years later, the girl became Tsubaki. It turns out that this is the reincarnation of the Asura King, first becoming a girl, then becoming a woman, and when this woman meets true love, she will become the Asura King - the savior of the devil awakens, and the devil can rule the mortal world. The deeper the two love, the more powerful the devil's energy becomes.
Going out to kill ghosts seems to be responsible for protecting Cangsheng, in fact, because he is the embodiment of the Immovable Ming King, so he feels her devilish breath when he sees the little girl, and although he struggles in his heart and cannot kill the child, he still raises the butcher's knife, and it is the fate of the Immovable Ming King to kill the demon.
That night, the fire he lit left a mark on the girl's shoulder. That mark is the red camellia on Tsubaki's shoulder. So it's no wonder that the first time he saw Tsubaki, his heart fluttered.
The incarnation of The Fudo Ming King kills the little girl who was reborn by the King of Asura, making the girl a woman.
Sick Leaf, who self-exiled for killing the child, goes out and falls in love with the woman the child has become, she is pure and innocent, beautiful and mellow, with a human soul and beauty. He teased her and said, "You don't feel my pure passion—pure lust." By the time she fell in love with him too, the woman grew into the devil.
In the end, the narrow road encounters in his lifetime, and the palm of his hand suddenly grows an entangled curve.
The devil, who has been slaughtered by humans, expects power and single-handedly plans the resurrection of King Asura.
Asura was first an image in Hinduism, literally translated as "non-heaven", that is, relative to the existence of "heavenly beings", in Hindu mythology, and the gods, Gandharva, and Ababhara all lived happily on Mount Meru, and once the heavens and the earth Indra offended Shiva (the god of destruction), one of the three main gods (gods of the gods), causing Shiva to lower the curse and the beings of the three realms to lose their vitality. Another lord, Vishnu (the god of protection), came to clean up the mess, had the gods and asuras work together to stir the milk sea in search of immortal nectar, and agreed to distribute the nectar equally between the gods and asuras.
Vishnu used the mandala mountain as a pestle to stir the sea, and the dragon king Po Suji as the stirring rope of the pestle, so that The Asura held the dragon's head and the god held the dragon's tail, and transformed himself into a large sea turtle to the bottom of the sea to bear the weight of the pestle. The "Immortal Nectar" finally appeared, the gods and asuras began to fight a robbery battle, the gods with the help of Vishnu to get the "immortal nectar", and the Asuras were driven to hell.
Buddhism absorbs many concepts from Hinduism, and in the Buddhist story, the Asura is one of the six paths, and although it constantly struggles with the gods, it is also one of the eight parts of the Buddhist protector god, the Heavenly Dragon. The six paths are: the Way of Heaven, the Way of Asura, the Way of Humanity, the Way of Animals, the Way of Hungry Ghosts, and the Way of Hell. Humanity and the Tao of Heaven are good ways, and the Asura Path is also one of the good ways, but because they are irritable and aggressive, brave and good at war, some schools also believe that they belong to the evil way.
The introduction of Buddhism to Japan has also spawned some allusions related to asuras, such as the famous "Shura Field". The 1980s comic "Sacred Biography" features the son of King Asura as the protagonist, growing up according to the three stages of "baby", "toddler" and "youth", and emotionally entangled with the Night King. (This is the first manga I have seen in my life) The Asuras in The Pupil of Asura City also grow up in three stages.
3. The future
Tsubaki awakens to become the King of Asura, and going out knows that Tsubaki really loves him, but since she has become the Demon King, killing ghosts must make a decision with her when she goes out.
When she heard that the evil void had chosen between her duty and her duty to kill the ghost, she ordered the evil void to kill the door, but the evil space was killed by the door. When he went out to see Tsubaki actually wanted to kill him, he also threw down the sentence "I will end this love story with my own hands" and left. At this time, the two of them, gritting their teeth in hatred, chanted the same curse, which is also a vow.
She hates humans, she hates the devil, she hates herself, she hates going out. She did not want to perform the duties of the Asura King, but only wanted to take revenge on all this, to avenge the fate imposed on her by the world. Love turns her into a demon, hate makes her crazy, burns Edo Castle, and makes the fire of hell burn all over the world. Sing a sad song, wait for the door to heal the injury and then challenge her again. (The Queen of Tianhai, a tragic and powerful female demon, played too well, fortunately, we still have Lin Qingxia.) ）
After going out of the house seriously injured and unconscious, he creates a "Blade of Destiny" and prepares to kill Asura. But even though Edo was bleeding profusely, he did not feel pain, but was filled with anticipation of reuniting his lover. She was also waiting for him in her bridal outfit. These two people actually don't care about human beings, only each other in their hearts, after I love you, which flood is terrible.
However, this time, there were other people present, and the world of the two became a mouth cannon and multi-person melee.
When he goes out and realizes that they are just pawns at the mercy of fate, he awakens, "I am no longer for anyone and anything, this is a matter between me and her." The heavy task of saving the world is entrusted to the master, and your master really owes you in his previous life.
Finally, reunion. In the world of two people, each casting magic, fighting in the dark, loving to death and living, the two dancing against each other, resisting death in the shadow of the sword and light. "I'm going to pierce you and use everything I have", how good is this pun!
Love makes people demonize, and it can also make demons put down the butcher's knife. A pair of lovers in Asura Castle sweated like rain, and the heavens in Edo Castle fell on Ganlin, and soon, the order of the world returned to normal, and the sick leaves returned to the human world. The story is over, but this fateful love affair is not over... Leave an open-ended ending.
Both Yuki Tenkai and Riki Miyazawa are my favorite people, but I prefer the stage version of Asura Castle Hitomi, firstly because the movie version is too simple and not profound enough, and because It is better to look at The stage makeup made by Sagoro. When Shigoro was Chinese New Year's Eve years old, playing a wandering son, he was also very young, he played Kabuki with superb skills, I didn't expect him to act in modern stage dramas so good, all-rounder! The Queen of Tianhai playing a woman is also rare and stunning, the aura is comparable, the heavens are set up, and the interaction between the two people (both full of aggression) is mutually abusive, (I privately think that this setting is similar to "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch"). The design of the action scene is too conscientious, and the one-time performance on the stage can achieve the effect of the martial arts movie editing.
In addition, the combination of Edo ghost stories and modern elements is really good, and the small humor design of the actors on the stage to flirt with the audience is also wonderful. The hardcore Abe Haruaki father and daughter always appear with rock music or electronic music, and from time to time break the fourth wall to directly interact with the audience. Go out and talk about kung fu, and when you die, you have to be teased. The troupe writer Tsuruya North and South, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil and also wrote a good play, and the plays in the play were interlocked, making this stage play rich in layers and diverse in style.
Follow-up gossip
Tsuruya Nanbei did have its own person in history, and he is the author of "The Strange Tale of Tokaido Four Valleys", and he is also orchestrating this play in "The Pupil of Asura Castle". This story tells the story of a negative husband who kills his wife and encounters a ghost of his wife. Going out is the lead actor of the story, and is also known as "Bluebeard" by his peers, which implies that he will kill his wife.
Historically, "Tokaido Four Valleys Strange Talk" premiered in Nakamuraza, which was fixed at that time as a horn-cut ginkgo biloba, and today's Nakamuraza still uses this pattern and also appears in stage plays. In the movie version of "Pupil of Asura Castle", the name of Nakamura Kansaburo, a famous character in Nakamura, appears on the poster of the troupe's performance. I don't know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate one, because Kabuki is a name-making system, and in real life in the year the movie was released, Nakamura Kankuro, who was born in 1955, happened to be named Nakamura Kansaburo in 2005. This person has a lot to do with Riki Miyazawa.
In 1992, Riki Miyazawa and sumo wrestler Takahanada got engaged, but it was said that it was due to Riki Miyazawa's mother, and in 1993, Riki held a separate press conference to announce the cancellation of the marriage contract. Riki Miyazawa is fully committed to her feelings, and after each breakup, she is very painful, and her career has fallen into a trough. Kiki Shirin took good care of her, introduced her to the "Keep Story" directed by Sakato Tamazaburō as the heroine, I don't know if it is because of this opportunity, Miyazawa Riki met Sakato Tamasaburō's good friend Nakamura Kansaburo, and broke out of the love affair, but Kansaburo is a husband, and soon broke the news that Miyazawa Riki and Kanzaburo dated, cut her wrist in another room in the same hotel, after being rescued, once again came out that she had a mental breakdown, anorexia and suicide. It was not until after entering the new century, several consecutive films won awards internationally, that the career re-entered the formal. So in the 2005 movie, the name of Kanzaburō Nakamura appeared, and I think that at that time, Miyazawa Rie had already put it down. We all know that Miyazawa Kei's fate is uncertain, whether it is career or life is under the long-term control of the mother, when he was a minor, he was tricked by his mother to take a photo album of fruit bodies, fortunately, the person in charge of the camera is Shinobu, the photo is beautiful but not pornographic, speaking of it, Shinoyama Kishin also took a photo album for Kaburo Sakato, Kansaburo Nakamura and other kabuki actors, which is really a connection in the dark.
(Sakahatama Saburo Kazu nakamura Kanzaburo)
Personal speculation is that Miyazawa riki has a thirst for her father's love, so she falls in love with Kansaburo, who is 18 years older than her. Kansaburo is outgoing, affectionate, and has a male attraction and a sense of security from his father, and Kansaburo is a bit like Gable to Marilyn Monroe. In 2012, Kansaburo died and Riki Miyazawa also attended the funeral, with news reports saying: "Miyazawa りえの目大粒の涙を見せました" (to the effect that Miyazawa Rie shed a lot of tears).
Inside and outside the play, how many stories.
Turning into samsara with karma, resentment and separation, and endless desire to rest.
Hui Jian Voldemort's love is difficult to break, and the red line is disturbing and obsessive.
The moon in the water, the dream bubble, where will you look?
The cherry blossoms fall like snow and think endlessly, and the rivers flow when they rise again.