Year: 1974
Duration: 01:39:42
Directed by: Masahiro Shinoda
Actors: Shima Iwoshita , Masao Kusakari , Rie Yokoyama
Language: Japanese (Hard English Subed)
Country: Japan
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Description of Himiko movie:The myth of the legendary ruler Himiko – shaman , who ruled the ancient kingdom of Yamatay in the III century BC, set out through the lens of a contemporary look at the history of Japan.
Chemical – a priestess , with the right to communicate with the gods of the sun. During the day she prophetess, the night her tormented desire, caress slaves . The established order varies with the return of the wanderings stepbrother Chemical Takehiko , to which she had conceived an insane passion. Incestuous love does not allow her to communicate more with the deities of the sun. Jealous brother to one of the priestesses , she puts his terrible execution . Then, in the struggle for power ends and the agonizing death of her life. In 1974, the film was nominated for the Palme vetvSinoda reviewing in this picture taken in Japanese mythology look at the origins of modern imperial family from the sun goddess Amaterasu . He needs to show that before the arrival of the people who worshiped her , the country was inhabited by indigenous tribes , whose faith was the deity of land and mountains. From this he concludes that the current emperor is not a direct descendant of the great-grandson of the legendary goddess of the sun. Breaking the legend of the divine origins of the imperial power , as the Synod would relieve their countrymen from a raised to the level of religious nationalist ideology , which is largely produced bloodshed of the Second World War.
Chemical and its environment, that is, those to whom goes the current imperial system , brutal, and there are no moral or natural law through which they would not dare to cross . Imperial power arises from the flow of blood in the throes of violence.
Material prehistoric give play to the flight director’s imagination. Synod Chemical settles in a strange palace surrounded by rows of white columns, obviously alien to Japanese architecture . In the film, two prevailing colors – white and red. In white , free- flowing fabrics dressed retinue of Chemistry . In the red robes swept the white sand heroine herself , writhing in erotic desires. Red blood gushing out of the wound Takehiko , Gretsiyu white pebbles sacred garden. In the film, the color red is associated with the theme of blood , white – with the theme of innocence.
At the end of the old priest raises his head and looks into the sky, and immediately appears on the screen today in Japan, taken from a bird’s eye view , dotted with modern highways . The Lost and meaningless look at this foyer old tombs of rulers .
This coloristic and refined plastic film, which collapses the myth of the divine origin of the emperor, links the work of synods with movies protester generation closer than th earlier movies, with direct signs of youthful rebellion .
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