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Released by Toho in 1988 and adapted from Yasushi Inoue's historical novel of the same name, Dunhuang, it invested 4.5 billion yen and grossed 8.2 billion yen at the box office, becoming the box office champion of that year.
Supposedly influenced by Dunhuang, released in 1990 by Toei, the historical novel of the same name by another historical novel giant, Haiyinji Shiogoro, was officially released, "Heaven and Earth", which is about the life of the legendary Uesugi Kenshin, focusing on the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen.
The director is Kadokawa Haruki, who is known as the rich second generation of Kadokawa Bookstore, and in order to make this film well, he did not hesitate to shoot this film, not only went to Canada to shoot, but also performed more than 20,000 people, and 20,000 horses were used alone, and it should be known that "Dunhuang", which made the war scene magnificent, only used more than 800 war horses. In terms of soundtrack, it is also written by Tetsuya Komuro, the godfather of Japanese music, and it is an absolute epic production, and the double enjoyment of audiovisual perception.
The film was the box office champion in Japan in 1990, and even now, the historical box office is ranked 12th, and "Dunhuang" is ranked 18th. This also led to the popularity of Haiyinji Shiogoro's novels, but Uesugi Kenshin's disposition was not happy, and he withdrew his writing on the grounds that "words have to be read on television".
Although "Heaven and Earth" has a strong box office, the depth is actually far less than that of "Dunhuang", and Kadokawa Haruki's directing skills are still different from Sato Junya.
Far from Kyoto, Echigo, jealous of the growing prestige of his younger brother Nagao Keiko, Echigo guardian Nagao Harukei sent an army to fight against his brotherhood, but was defeated by the nineteen-year-old Nagao Keehu with a strange attack. Nagao Jinghu thus entered KasugaYama Castle as the new governor and was recognized by the imperial court. But the righteous long-tailed Jinghu was not happy in his heart, and he asked Vishamantian to forgive him for betraying his brother and give him strength.
One day, the long-tailed Jinghu lost his way while hunting wild deer, and inadvertently let a beautiful flute girl break into his heart. He thought that it would be difficult to see each other after the chance encounter, but soon after, when he visited the military master Pipa Island Lord Usami Dingxing, he saw him again, and it turned out that the flute girl was actually Usami Dingxing's daughter Nomi.
Takeda Harunobu, the "Tiger of Kai", also became interested in the young man who had been invincible since the first battle and was known as the "Dragon of Echigo" through the story of the iron cannon merchant, and ordered the military master Yamamoto Kansuke to investigate all his preferences. In the seventeenth year of astronomy (1548), Takeda finally began to attack Shinano, and his heart was happy to see the coming dragon and tiger fight.
The so-called heroes pity each other, and Nagao Jinghu is also full of ambition for a battle with Takeda Harunobu. The cherry blossoms in Kasuga Castle are better than the snow, and when the cherry blossom snow is over, it is time for Nomi to finally get married, but the long-tailed Jinghu once vowed to the Buddha to cut off the common thoughts. Under the cherry blossom tree, the snow is like a heart, you play the flute for me gently one last time, I ride a horse for you for the last time under the crazy moon, may every flower fall in this life save energy and read each other.
In order to capture Akita Castle, and also to punish Akita Tsunekazu for the sake of Kita Shinano's strategy, Nagao Keisuke rebelled against Akita Tsunesuke, and in order to punish Akita Tsunehirasuke for killing the emissaries, Nagao Keinobu reluctantly acquiesced to the courtiers killing Akita Tsuneshisuke's wife and children before the battle, and this kind of unjust act of killing innocents made him deeply tormented in his heart.
The idealist Nagao Jinghu decided to exile himself, and one person quietly left KasugaYama Castle, refusing everyone's persuasion. On the way to exile, he met Takeda Harunobu by chance, because he had rammed Takeda Harunobu's female general Yae, and from the beginning of the battle, he followed his courtiers to block the sword for him and died, which touched him greatly. Takeda Harunobu reprimanded the perpetrators and gave them a bag of money to compensate, not expecting that a dragon and a tiger would meet for the first time in such a scene.
During Nagao Keehu's self-exile, Ōkami Asahide, the lord of The Crown Castle, who despised Uesugi Kenshin's woman's benevolence, was also rebelled by Takeda, and the military master Usami Tsuneiyuki was also shaken by the persuasion of Takeda's military master Yamamoto Kansuke. Takeda Harunobu took his beloved Yae to takayama with a majestic vision. In the twenty-second year of astronomy (1553), the Takeda army defeated the bitter hand Murakami Yoshiaki and entered Kawanaka Island, and the twelve-year-long dragon and tiger hegemony was about to begin.
The long-tailed Jinghu, who had returned, finally grew and realized, not only skillfully using the schemes he had previously despised, but also delving into the iron cannon that he had previously called a coward. In the twenty-second year of astronomy (1553), the first Battle of Kawanakajima was launched, with Nagao Keehu personally leading an army of 10,000 troops to deploy Kawanaka Island, and Takeda Harunobu laid down a fish scale array to meet the battle, and the two sides won and lost each other.
The long-tailed Jinghu personally shot the provocative Yae in front of the battle with an iron cannon, which was also considered to be revenge for the death of his courtiers. Takeda and Nagao discussed withdrawing their troops, and Nagao just got a letter from Usami Tsunade and Takeda Harunobu, and the first Battle of Kawanakajima came to an end.
Usami's rebellion on Pipa Island upset her daughter Nomi and the guardian Nagao Keiko. Nagao Keiko and Usami Dingxing agreed to go head-to-head in front of the battle, and although they could not bear it, they still killed Usami Dingyuki with their own hands.
Long-tailed Jinghu rode a long distance, braving the drizzle, a person came to Nomi's house, personally told Nomi about the death of Nomi's father, Nomi sadly blew up the flute, killing his father's person, turned out to be his favorite person, and this is the sadness of being born in a chaotic world.
In the fourth year of The Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in the fourth year of Nagaroku (1561), Nagao Keisho had taken over the surname of the Uesugi clan, the head of the Kanto clan, and officially changed his name to Uesugi Kenshin. Takeda Harunobu was also appointed as the Guardian of Shinano and renamed Takeda Shingen.
Uesugi Kenshin bypassed Kaizu Castle and deployed at Mt. Takeda, in order to avoid being besieged, went to Chausuyama to deploy. The two sides held each other for five days without any movement, and Takeda Shingen deliberately withdrew the Chaususan Yama honjin to Haizu Castle, trying to lure Uesugi Kenshin in pursuit, but Uesugi Kenshin remained unmoved. Takeda Shingen decided to adopt the woodpecker tactics of the military master Yamamoto Kansuke, and the soldiers divided into two routes, one from behind Mt. Tsuyogo, and the other to Kawanaka Island.
Uesugi Kenshin saw through Kansuke Yamamoto's woodpecker tactics and decided to fight a decisive battle. On the eve of the decisive battle, the Namito people sent their beloved flute, and Uesugi Kenshin knew that he would never see the beloved woman again, so he resolutely dropped his hair in front of the statue of Vishamon and officially converted to buddhahood. In this life, I only wish to be related in the next life, and there is no separation in the world.
At dawn, Uesugi Kenshin took advantage of the fog to launch a surprise attack on Takeda Shingen's main array, attacked the Crane Wing Array with a car suspension array, killed Takeda Shingen alone, slashed three times in a row, cut takeda Shingen's blade, directly slashed Takeda Shingen, and then rode away in the dust.
Instead of being called "Heaven and Earth", the title of the movie is actually called "Uesugi Kenshin", because Takeda Shingen's role is actually not much, and Uesugi Kenshin is the protagonist of course. There are historical figures in the film that have changed more than the historical facts, for example, it may be because Usami is full of the reputation of loyal subjects, so in the film, the name is deliberately changed to Usami Dingxing to facilitate the setting of the plot of Usami Dingxing's rebellion.
In the Nobunaga no Wang series, Wu Yong will definitely be Uesugi Kenshin who is set to 100 full value, and Usami Dingman, who single-handedly challenges Wu Yong not more than 60, will be beaten by the opponent to rob long, which is a bit unacceptable at the beginning, but think about it in Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Ma Chao and Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing was almost killed by Yan Xing, you must know that in the game, the force value of these two people is not in the first file. So later it was not completely unacceptable.
"Heaven and Earth" is a film with a strong sense of ceremony, so it seems a little blunt and not mellow enough. However, the war scenes in "Heaven and Earth" are indeed magnificent, the Takeda family moves like a rising flame, and the Uesugi family sweeps like a long dark cloud, always entangled in one place, and the visual effect is quite shocking.
The film's restoration of ancient formations and wars is very high, and the formations shown are fish scales, crane wings, and car suspensions, but for Uesugi Kenshin's must-kill array car suspension array, the display is still not detailed enough. In addition, the formation in which Uesugi Kenshin launched the charge at the end was quite a bit of a sharp formation.
For the tactics of the troops, the degree of reduction is also very high, such as the spearman holding a three-meter-long three-room gun and hitting the enemy from top to bottom, rather than stabbing flat.
There is also a clear difference between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family against the iron gunners, and the iron gunners of the Uesugi family will carry one more defensive shield than the iron gunners of the Takeda family. The Iron Gunner hid behind the horse fence and made a three-stage attack, which could effectively avoid the onslaught of the enemy cavalry, and Oda Nobunaga relied on this tactic to defeat the invincible Akabi of the Takeda family at the Battle of Nagashiro.
In addition, for the defense of the city, there will also be a tactic of setting fireballs.
There are also some useless troops, such as the eight-fold team composed of women with a sword, riding a white horse in red armor, and the Suwa Shinjun who beats drums to summon the help of the gods, and seems to be useless except to die on the battlefield.
Of course, the most impactful scene is also the charge of the cavalry, which is quite gorgeous.
In addition to the war scenes in this film, which are quite visually impactful, when it comes to emotional scenes, there are also many beautiful shots, such as cherry blossoms and red leaves in the trees, which can quite set off the mood of the characters at that time.
Uesugi Kenshin is a contradictory person, and his contradiction comes from his devout faith in the Buddha, on the one hand, he does not like to kill, on the other hand, he has to incarnate as a Shura; on the other hand, he has no desire for the Buddha, and on the other hand, he cannot not love in his heart. I am very sorry that the beautiful love between him and Nomi, the love in the chaotic world, is like a snow cherry blossom scattered by the wind, although it is strong, it is always difficult to grasp. If Nami could die and recover, would he be willing to re-store three feet of green silk for her in front of Vishamon?
In fact, ancient Chinese historical materials such as "Heaven and Earth" do not know how much, but unfortunately it is a suitable director to shoot out, before Wu Yusen's "Chibi" was originally very much looking forward to, but unfortunately after watching it, I feel that the pattern is too small, and it is a pity.
"Heaven and Earth" was filmed before the bursting of the economic bubble in Japan in the early 1990s, when Japanese filmmakers had strong financial resources and frequent big-scale money, but after the economic bubble burst, Japanese people began to become rational in filmmaking, and this rational return also determined that it was difficult for Japan to have epic productions like "Heaven and Earth" and "Dunhuang", and it has since become a legacy.