#Film and television miscellaneous talk # Heart stick, is the meaning of the thug. In Japan, those who are stained with this word basically want to see blood, which is not a good thing.
The film "Heart Stick" is a famous Japanese martial arts action movie, not only has a sword and light sword shadow, even the gun is used, and the protagonist hero in it is almost finished. What's even more brutal is that after that, the Japanese ronin used a knife to kill a bloody road for Italian Westerns.
"Heart Stick" is a film directed by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakashiro, Joe Shimura, and Sachika, released in 1961. The film's directors and actors are all iconic figures in Japan. In this popular martial arts action film, Akira Kurosawa's actor Toshiro Mifune portrays the typical Japanese hero - Ronin, a jianghu hero who laughs in the sea, who is a dashing chivalrous guest who whisks away his clothes and hides his merits and fame.
The name of this chivalrous guest is Santoro Kuwata.
Sanshiro Kuwata, who wandered the rivers and lakes, walked casually in the countryside, at a fork in the road, he did not know where to go, he used a wooden stick to first raise a fire to the sky and then a tennō scattered flowers, and then chose a path by the point of the stick. On the way, he asked for a bowl of water through a peasant family, and met the son of this family who did not learn any skills and went to the mixed world. Spoiler in advance is that at the end of the story, the hero left him a small life. After drinking the water, Kuwata 30 continued to hurry to a small town. This town is the world of the underworld: the two bullies of Kiyobei and Nitta Ugly Yin are here to fight for territory, without stopping to fight, making the people unhappy. Sanshiro then kept devising and creating trouble, so that the two sides could fight each other to get rid of the violence. However, with the addition of Uginosuke, his younger brother Uzumaki, who returned from a trip, the situation changed dramatically. His assistant had a rare short gun at the time, and not only was the forces of the Kiyoshi guards defeated, but even Sanshiro almost died.
"Stick of Heart" is a black-and-white film, after all, it is a long time ago, but the picture quality is very clear, the story is more exciting, and the film's approach is not comparable even to most films now. This is a highly regarded classic film that deserves to be collected.
In the concept of Chinese martial arts, those who walk the rivers and lakes, regardless of the depth of kung fu, are called chivalrous. Those who walk the rivers and lakes in Japan are called ronin or samurai. Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain" - "Seven Samurai", which shaped the group portraits of these ronin, compared with "Seven Samurai", Kurosawa Akira in this "Heart Stick", concentrated on creating a typical heroic image of a Japanese ronin: the artist is bold, uninhibited, chivalrous, witty and cunning. In the film, Kuwata Sanshiro wanders around in the two gangs, provoking, teasing, fooling, playing with both sides in the palm of his hand, and after completing the great cause of eliminating violence, he waved his sleeve and went out laughing in the sky, showing his personal heroism and chivalrous image to the fullest. The following year, Akira Kurosawa filmed the film's companion film, Tsubaki Sanjuro, which was also intended to promote this kind of chivalry.
As an action film, this movie gives people a particularly huge contrast, that is, the whole tone of the film is particularly quiet, and the quiet makes people not feel the intensity and heat of the action movie on people's emotions. This feeling mainly comes from the simplicity of the tone of the film, the intricate color changes of the black and white film make people's vision do not need to accept more stimulation, and the strong visual stimulation will of course bring about changes in people's emotions; followed by the use of a large number of long shots and fixed lenses in the film. This allows one to focus on the psychological and emotional fluctuations that come with the storyline rather than the rhythmic changes in the picture. The use of the telescope head and the exquisite composition of the film are a major factor in the promotion of this film; "Heart Stick" is a film that wins by detail. The stage drama style scenes, the promotion of the plot, and the changes in the emotions of the characters are all the details of the massage, which makes the film fascinating. The movements of the characters, the expressions of the faces, etc., can be called classics. Of course, suddenness is still a sign of Akira Kurosawa's films, which seems to be the usual routine of Japanese movies, that is, after a long period of preparation, and then a plot flip, a flash of action, let people open their mouths, and then fall into the plot of hiding the knife in the sake of laughter. This point is used extremely sophisticated in the films of the later Takeshi Kitano.
Cold humor and slang seem to have always been a distinctive feature of Japanese cinema, and from this film, this point of view is obviously a long time ago. People who are accustomed to the cold passages in Kitano Takeshi's films, and then look at this film, in fact, Kurosawa Akira seems to come more distinctively and more frequently. There are too many details in the film, to name a few: at the beginning of the film, Sanshi lang decides the direction of walking by leaning on a wooden stick; Sanshi Lang overhears the boss lady's plan against him and spits his tongue at the onlookers to sell cuteness; two gangsters prepare to fight after a gang leader climbs over the wall to escape, and then specially stops and laughs at Sanshi Lang; at the end of the film, Sanshi Lang lets go of the asshole at the beginning of the film, and the asshole goes home crying to find his mother.... The grasp and polishing of details is the most obvious embodiment of the spirit of craftsmanship in many directors in Japan.
Akira Kurosawa brought Japanese cinema to the world, and the biggest impact this film brought to the world film world was the birth of the first "Red Dead Redemption" in the "Dart Trilogy" of Italian director Sergio Leone, "Red Dead Redemption" is a remake of this film, and Akira Kurosawa also became a screenwriter on the subtitles of the film. Red Dead Redemption was also the first Italian Western to be released internationally, bringing the Western genre back to life.
Because of "Red Dead Redemption", Akira Kurosawa said that he profited more from this film than his "Heart Stick". This should be his windfall.
"Stick of Heart" is a classic in the films of the era, and it is also a classic that future generations continue to understand.