#Unpei Yokoyama
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Chiyari Fuji (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, 1955)
"I did nothing. It was all down to my retainer carrying my spear."
"Yes, but a retainer acts on behalf of his master."
"It was my retainer's achievement -"
"Without his master, a retainer is nothing. A retainer acts on behalf of his master. This is the authorities' point of view."
#Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji#Chiyari Fuji#japanese cinema#films i done watched#tomu uchida#1955#Chiezô Kataoka#Ryûnosuke Tsukigata#Chizuru Kitagawa#Yuriko Tashiro#Daisuke Katô#Eitarô Shindô#Toranosuke Ogawa#Kyôji Sugi#Yoshio Yoshida#Eijirô Kataoka#Chie Ueki#Motoharu Ueki#Unpei Yokoyama#Masao Oda#Instafave#Utterly beautiful. A gentle‚ somber‚ charming‚ playful stroll through Edo era Japan. A composite of so many different moods and themes and#Genre defying asides; yet it never feels like an awkward mish mash‚ but instead a comfortable patchwork blanket. If this film succeeds at#Anything‚ I think it is at depicting the human experience. Life is messy. It isn't a straight forward journey from a to b‚ and like the#Journey taken by Uchida's ensemble‚ there are necessary stops and confusions‚ interruptions and surprises. And sometimes it is unfair‚ and#Sometimes it is cut short. Such is life. Such is the journey. Full of beautiful‚ subtle moments; genuinely funny and honestly heartbreaking#In fairly equal amounts. Badly served by both the English language title and the poster above‚ which combine to suggest an altogether more#Violent genre piece. There is violence‚ strong for the era‚ but this is a film which does not easily fit a genre and it certainly isn't the#Film many (myself included!) will have gone in expecting. It's much‚ much better and much‚ much more significant.#I didn't even mention like... The politics of this film‚ or the humanism at its centre. I mean I guess you get a good idea from that quote
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