"Humpback City" is the work of legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, with a strong personal style. Takeshi Kitano is a director who constantly seeks balance and breakthrough from contrast and contradiction. Takeshi Kitano's films have always been seen as a "variable" in the Japanese film industry, he likes subversion, provocation, killing, silence and beauty. His films contain two extremes: extreme coldness and extreme sentimentalism, which are both an outpouring of his unconsciousness and a manifestation of his self-consciousness.
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The "Humpback City" series is a traditional Japanese historical theme, and Takeshi Kitano says that this is not only his first costume drama, but also the first time to make a movie based on someone else's concept. As a reinterpretation of the classic theme, "Humpback City" has attracted the attention of Japanese audiences. I haven't seen any other films about Humpback City, so Takeshi Kitano's work gives me the impression of freshness, bloodiness and humor, coldness and sentimentality, summed up as extreme coldness and extreme sentimentality. His works seem to follow the traditional style of Japanese literary and artistic works, calm and restrained, restrained and depressed.
Extreme coldness is mainly reflected in the extremely tense fight scenes in the film, and the urgent rhythm makes people's hearts beat faster. In this coldness, the film incorporates black humor. Throughout the film from the beginning to the end, the taciturn Hutou City actually has insight into all the developments of the situation, he is completely in accordance with his own will, speaking with a sword, and countering violence with violence. In those days, it was also the survival code for swordsmen and ronin. Whoever has the fastest sword is the king. In martial arts, unlike Hong Kong's flowing and gorgeous martial arts style and Western fencing, it is kitano's takeshi bloody — sudden, rapid and violent action. Watching Takeshi Kitano's reinterpretation of the blind man of "Humpback City" is really a kind of enjoyment, very enjoyable. The mastery of the humpback city knife technique and the almost a preference for violence make him unconsciously play a positive role. If we start from Chinese aesthetic point of view, he knows that it is his own need to eradicate the most vicious people, but he does not know that it is his own need to save a person who has embarked on a wrong path, and to eradicate the evil people.
Extreme sentimentality is mainly reflected in the tragic love that is both strong and calm in the film and the indifference of the feelings between people. In this silence and sentimentality, the film incorporates a lively and cheerful melody and tap dance. Takeshi Kitano's films are between violent temperament and fairy tale sensibility, and there is a cruel tenderness. In addition to Takeshi Kitano's consistent and unique aesthetic view of violence, "Humpback City" also has crisp cinematography and editing, as well as super entertainment, which he has not had in his previous films. Some people say that in today's world film industry, the three words "Kitano Takeshi" represent Japanese films, and also represent a specific style of Japanese films. His film style is changeable, he is sometimes very bloody and violent, and sometimes spread a trace of warmth. But thematically, he still has an almost stubborn attachment to the subject of death, that is, "to live is to perish forever." ”
In addition, there is a detail in the dancing scene at the end of the movie: the sisters change back to the way they were before the family tragedy and then change back, but the smile is as relaxed and happy, reflecting the strong sense of life in Kitano Takeshi's film, and the exploration of the diversity of life and death.