Takeshi Kitano’s Kubi is one peculiar film, a frantic, blood-drenched, star-studded historic epic that has extra beheadings per minute than most characteristic movies.
It additionally options disemboweling, spearing, beatings, torture, and poisonings, and at one level one dude forces one other to eat a pastry off his sword earlier than kissing him lustily on his bleeding mouth. It’s fairly particular.
The Honnō-ji Incident, the violent 1582 ambush of the highly effective warlord Oda Nobunaga (Ryo Kase) by considered one of his personal generals, Akechi Mitsuhide (Hidetoshi Nishijima), is a historic occasion that has impressed various works, with many speculating in regards to the causes for Mitsuhide’s betrayal of Nobunaga. In Kitano’s retelling, it had at the least one thing to do with the truth that Mitsuhide and Nobunaga had been lovers and that Mitsuhide additionally had a factor happening with Araki Murashige (Ken’ichi Endô), one other outcast common who had turned on Nobunaga. In Kubi, sexual want isn’t the primary motive for the treachery, nevertheless it does supercharge it: Who truly cares for whom and who’s merely utilizing whom merely for intercourse are questions on the characters’ minds.
The double- and triple-crosses amongst Nobunaga’s generals — don’t fear should you can’t maintain observe of the whole lot, because the sheer density of treachery up and down the category order is type of the purpose right here — are sufficient to make your head spin. In this, these warlords maybe replicate their very own grasp’s sadism, as Nobunaga is abusive, loud, and merciless, the type of chief who will scream at his retainers to kill themselves (and one another) as a check of their loyalty. (Ryo Kase performs him as a whirlwind of spite and glee, frothing with rage one minute, childishly delighting in others’ humiliation, dying, and smash the subsequent.) But there’s additionally a free-for-all underway to inherit Nobunaga’s energy, as a result of he refuses to cede it to his fool sons. The broad rebellion towards him comes not from a way of noble resistance towards a petty, vindictive, unstable chief, however fairly an opportunity to rise above everybody else.
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