Rarely can you see such a successful villain in a war drama.
After the popular anti-war drama "Patriot" currently broadcast in the Happiness Theater of Jiangsu Satellite TV, the ratings continued to rise after being broadcast, and it won the first place in the ratings list in the same period for 9 consecutive days. There is only one clue to this drama, how the protagonist Song Yanqiao finds Yan Hongguang and becomes Yan Hongguang, during which he has experienced prison storms, espionage storms and mountain forest resistance. And the contest between the Japanese secret service agencies that lingered around them also made people's blood veins boil. The only character in the play who has been competing with Yan Hongguang is Yuichi Kishitani.
If "The Patriot" is to witness the establishment of an army and the awakening of the national spirit with the growth process of a "patriot", then the villain yuichi Kishitani played by Lu Fangsheng also has his own growth and destruction. When Kishitani Yuichi, who has just entered the school, goes on a mission with his teacher Yokohito, his reaction will vomit and he will escape, and the setting of this plot can be described as a grass snake ambush line, laying the groundwork for his future changes.
Kishitani should be regarded as a "clear stream" in their group, and he is light in the face of the teacher's officialdom and behind-the-scenes transactions. His first shocking thing in office was to write an investigation report on the arrest of Yan Hongguang. This seems to Hengyan to be a sword to go sideways, and this is also the starting point of Kishitani's traces, which is appreciated by Tu Feiyuan and enters the secret service agency. At this point, the contest between Kishitani Yuichi and Yan Hongguang also officially started.
To a certain extent, Kishitani Yuichi has his youthful enthusiasm and ambition, and is a pragmatist. He scoffed at the bribery of officialdom, a strong man who had an astonishing acumen and insight into the Communist Party. After being teased by Song Yanqiao at the beginning, it also laid the foundation for his belief that he would be an enemy of Song Yanqiao. Whether it is the suspicion of Song Yanqiao in the hospital, or the keen insight of Da Tuo'er in the Mashenka Bar, or the surveillance of Shu Jie, the arrest of Yan Hongguang, the insight and action of Kishitani Yuichi is amazing, and his logic and execution finally got rid of the general anti-war drama's setting of the villain's low IQ and low emotional intelligence, which is a highlight of "Patriot".
For Yuichi Kishitani, his achievements were nothing more than the arrest of Yan Hongguang. His preset ambush makes Yan Hongguang's life hang by a thread, but the report that "Yan Hongguang is dead" and the follow-up Song Yanqiao's inheritance of Yan Hongguang are undoubtedly a super driving force that boosts the development of the plot. While we sing the praises of Song Yanqiao's "one man is an army", we may ignore the growth of Yuichi Kishitani, a powerful opponent, whose work performance will be due to Yan Hongguang's smooth steps, and his life will also step into the abyss because of Yan Hongguang.
Let's look at a plot set up in the play. The Japanese Kwantung Army Shōsa Maeda Katsuya, a lustful and cruel butcher, created a bloody massacre, slaughtered progressive students, and destroyed corpses. This plot is placed on the head of Maeda Katsuya, not Kishitani Yuichi, we assume that Kishitani Yuichi actually began to pay attention to the student workers' movement a long time ago, and when he studied Marxist-Leninist thought and the student movement, he must have a control and understanding of the progressive student community. But this act of slaughtering students will not happen to Yuichi Kishitani, first of all, due to his personality, he is a moderate and disciplined handmaiden to a certain extent, he is well aware of the spirit of resistance that comes from Chinese soil, and he knows Yan Hongguang's appeal to the people of northeast China, so he will not point a butcher knife at the student group in his plan. Second, he had his foresight of the crisis caused by the massacre of patriotic students, noting that it was Kishitani Yuichi who called late at night to remind Maeda to be careful of revenge from the underground party. However, the conceited Maeda forgot the advice and walked step by step towards death. Whether it's Maeda's conceited stupidity or Shao's supremacy of money, Kishitani is absolutely second to none in terms of ability and vision.
What is Kishitani's attitude toward progressive youth? Knowing is moved by reason and emotion. This is in line with his vision setting, which can be seen in his attitude towards Qiao Yun. In the play, Qiao Yun's death is not portrayed positively, but through the waving trench coat, the fluttering top hat, and countless butterflies flying behind her, she will foil the death of a female student. Kishitani Yuichi's approach is to describe the process of Qiao Yun's sacrifice to Shu Jie after Qiao Yun's death, which is a heavy psychological blow to Shu Jie, which is Kishitani's practice of cursing people.
Kishitani's rivalry between Yan Hongguang never ended, which became his obsession with Yan Hongguang (Song Yanqiao) as a lifelong enemy. He belonged to the image category of a typical young Japanese officer under the influence of fascism, radical, persistent, and murderous. Is there a soft place in his heart? Yes.
The softness of his heart comes from Shu Jie.
We can't say when Kishitani Yuichi had a different idea about Shu Jie. Perhaps in the Mashenka bar, Shu Jie raised his hand to touch him, once lingering, and even after seeing Shu Jie, he repeatedly associated with the encounter of the Ma Shenka bar, and some of them were obsessed with the suspicion and arrest of the underground party, which made him pay more attention to Shu Jie. But it was also in the observation and surveillance that Shu Jie seemed to awaken the soft part of his heart. In a way, Shu Jie fulfilled all his innermost fantasies of freedom and romance. This can be seen from the look in his eyes when he looks at Shu Jie, when he is monitoring Shu Jie, he dances and toasts to it, and that kind of heartfelt yearning is his rare relaxation of the mind. His wife, Rieko, also captures his unusual feelings for Shu Jie, which he cannot feel in his wife, and he has a repressed yearning for romance in his heart. I remember that he once met Shu Jie after work, Shu Jie easily said "no one cares", and the corners of his mouth gently repeated a sentence "no one cares". This is self-talk, he may be thinking about the meaning of "no one cares" for himself and the aftertaste of Shu Jie's "no one cares", in fact, he is the one who monitors and "manages" her behind his back.
However, all this, with the exposure of Shu Jie's identity, once again plunged him into the abyss of self-doubt.
His phrase "be a prisoner of my own" is a kind of unwilling hegemony, even at the expense of betraying his wife, and he has rounded up a "reverse infiltration" plan in front of Tu Feiyuan. Personally, I think that the most exciting part of the intertwining and collision of the contradictions between Kishitani and Shu jie is the final rivalry of Kishitani, Shu Jie, and Rikiko. The awakening and explosion of the depths of everyone's humanity: Kishitani's persistence and hypocrisy, Shu Jie's cognition and judgment of the executioner, and Rikiko's love for love and inability to yearn for... Everything is intertwined, love, faith, and humanity, so that they love and kill each other at this three forks of the road after walking many roads.
The destruction of Yan Hongguang's belief in Kishitani Yuichi, the contest of Song Yanqiao's ability against Kishi Tani Yuichi, and the torture of Shu Jie's feelings against KishiTani Yuichi, all of this once again made Kishitani Yuichi fall deeper and deeper, gradually rendering him a demon, and the imprisonment and bondage of his own soul made him spare no effort to continue to hunt Down Song Yanqiao. The hatred for Shu Jie and the hatred for Song Yanqiao made him fall deeper and deeper again. Yuichi Kishitani and Yan Hongguang's struggle obsession, self-goal and self-annihilation of humanity. It can be said that The man Yuichi Kishitani perfectly shows the exploration, loss and distortion of human nature of a hot-blooded youth under the rule of militarism.
When Kishitani Yuichi frantically hunted down Song Yanqiao, when Kishitani Yuichi one day raised the butcher knife that killed Song Yanqiao, he himself finally went to the abyss and was doomed. Screenwriter Wang Hailin said: "He was tortured by this opponent and distorted, and finally he went crazy, and he gradually went to the abyss of human nature." Including the previous time when he killed civilians, he began to have compassion. But later because he was a believer in fascism, he gradually became an enemy of anti-humanity. From the moment he killed Song Yanqiao (Yan Hongguang), he also killed himself mentally, and his life after that was actually a mess, and his spiritual world collapsed. Because his enemy defeated him completely overwhelmingly. Although his enemies were dead. So I'm writing about this contest of wills, a contest of personalities."
Finally, I praised Lu Fangsheng's interpretation of the role of Yuichi Kishitani, and Lu Fangsheng's hot blood in this character, the struggle with the underground party, the twisted feelings with Shu Jie, and the selfless pursuit of Song Yanqiao's red light were all integrated. Let the hateful show their pity. When Lu Fangsheng played Kishitani Yuichi, he had his pride, his unwillingness, and more profoundly, the desire that was deeply understood in his bones, and in the end, such desire destroyed others and destroyed himself.
Thanks to the screenwriter Wang Hailin's portrayal of the wonderful role in the play, the villain role also has a more three-dimensional description, and thanks to the actor Lu Fangsheng's interpretation of this role, let justice and evil flow between the two sides of human nature. This is the perfect combination of successful works and images.