recommends today is a Japanese war film - "203 Heights". The
film was shot in 1980 and is 180 minutes long. Directed by Toshio Takada, starring Nakadai Tatsuya / Tanbo Tetsuro / Mifune Toshiro / Aoi Teruhiko, with a Douban score of 7.6. The
film is based on the background of the Russo-Japanese War in the late Qing Dynasty, and describes in detail how the commander of the Japanese Third Army, Nogi Kideen, captured the height of 203 in the battle of Lushun Port. The
film was produced by Toei Co., Ltd. and . It cost 1.5 billion yen and took 3 years to shoot. It was an absolute masterpiece at that time, and it was once screened critically in the mainland.
As far as a war movie itself is concerned, even from the current point of view, apart from the special effects of blood plasma and muzzle smoke, the movie is very old-fashioned in the creation of war scenes, character modeling, costumes, props and music. All performed excellently, with the taste of an epic blockbuster. The
film adopts the "heaven and earth line" in the narrative, unifies the opposition between high-level decision-making and small soldier battles, and restores the historical background, reasons, and process of the war to the big screen in a highly realistic manner. It can be said that it is the best film in the "War Trilogy" of Toshio Nada.
As for the online saying that the film is an anti-war film, the uncle is skeptical. Although the film also reflects the cruelty and dehumanization of war, it does not rise to the height of anti-war at all.
Although the director is very clear about the injustice of this war, it is not realistic for him to spend 1.5 billion to scold his ancestors.
In fact, the film almost created another kind of militaristic aesthetics, mixing the spirit of Japanese Bushido, loyalty and patriotism, generosity to death, blood and music. After the packaging of the film, it is not only very confusing, but also exudes Very attractive side. Because of this,
has almost become a textbook example of many similar themes in Japan since then, such as " Men's Yamato ", "Forever Zero", "Ah! The Navy", " Japan Sea Battle " and other such works, can find the shadow of this film.
The essence of country-to-country struggle is, in the final analysis, a cultural struggle. From Hollywood blockbusters to popular dramas all over the Internet, this is the list. We must guard this position and must not take it lightly.
Okay, that's all for the film. Let's review the history in the next film as usual - the Russo-Japanese War.
The Russo-Japanese War refers to a war between imperialist powers on the territory of our country between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire in order to compete for control of my country's Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula from 1904 to 1905. It is an unjust war between imperialists.
The above is the definition given by the history books. To put it bluntly, it is a dog-eat-dog fight. What is even more bizarre is that the Qing government at that time actually declared that it would remain neutral in the war.
This is equivalent to your neighbors Zhang San and Li Si both fell in love with your daughter-in-law, and they both fought in your living room to fight for your daughter-in-law, and then you said righteously: Whoever won the battle against my daughter-in-law It belongs to whoever, I will not participate in the whole process!
The bear like the Qing government is no longer there! Why did he act like this, because he was afraid of being beaten.
In 1900, the Boxer movement broke out in China. In order to divert the conflict, the mad woman Cixi declared war on the foreign powers out of her power. As a result, the Allied Forces of the Eight-Power Allied Forces came together to beat the Qing Dynasty. Everyone knows the result of
, the mad woman was forced to run away, and signed the " Xin Chou Treaty " which humiliated the country, and the compensation price and interest totaled more than 980 million taels of silver.
has always coveted the Russians in the northeast of our country, thinking that the time is ripe, and took advantage of the chaos to send troops to occupy the entire northeast. And after the signing of the treaty, other countries withdrew their troops, and they still stayed in the northeast and did not want to leave. The operation of
polar bear immediately caused dissatisfaction in other countries, especially the British, Japanese and Americans . The three countries,
, also have their own ghosts. , the British Empire, and , as the world's first brother at that time, have always been strictly guarding against polar bears, and they are irreconcilable. In order to contain the momentum of polar bears going to sea, the two sides also fought head-to-head in Crimea.
due to whenAt the time, Britain was deeply involved in the Boer War in South Africa, and would not be able to deal with the Russians for a while. For Japan, new hatred and old hatred came to mind. Originally, after the Sino-Japanese War, according to the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", the Qing Dynasty had ceded Taiwan, Penghu, and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. In the end,
was pulled by the polar bears who had an idea in their hearts, France and Germany forced Japan to let the Qing Dynasty redeem Liaodong with 30 million taels of silver.
spit out the fat in his mouth, and this is not the end. The polar bear immediately leased the ports of Lushun and Dalian from the Qing government in the name of "returning the merits to Liaoning", allowing the Russian Pacific Fleet to finally gain a foothold in Asia. This makes Japan's teeth ticklish. For the United States,
also does not want to see polar bears being too powerful, preventing them from taking more and more of the sick man of East Asia. Since
has a common enemy, it is simple, so an alliance is born.
On January 30, 1902, the British Empire started the shit stick skills, formed an alliance with Japan, and cultivated Japan into its own anti-Russian vanguard. The United States does not stand on the table, but has been secretly giving money behind its back.
has the endorsement of the world's first brother and the huge amount of money from the big capitalists in the United States. The Japanese began to expand their military and prepare for war, vowing to take back the fat they spit out.
On February 8, 1904, the Japanese combined fleet attacked the Russian Pacific Fleet in Lushun by relying on traditional skills, and the Russo-Japanese War broke out. Since
knew that he lacked resources and could not hold on for a long time, the Japanese army with a gambler mentality sent heavy troops to the Liaodong Peninsula at the beginning of the war. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan is gaining momentum, and the soldiers of the army have also been brainwashed by the Bushido spirit. When a war is fought, it is called a dead man, and the Maozi who is known as a fighting nation can't resist it.
However, in the battle of Lushun, Maozi gave the Japanese army a blow, forcing the Japanese army to pull out Naomi Xidian, who was named the God of War in the Sino-Japanese War, to save the situation.
Nogi Nishian brought 130,000 soldiers to the fortress of Lushun and played a queuing charge. He quickly reimbursed 20,000 people, and even his two sons died.
's ignorant military god turned to attack the 203 highland. After nearly half a month of fighting, the Japanese army with countless casualties finally broke through the Russian defense line and seized the highland.
The Japanese army immediately set up artillery fire on the high ground and bombarded the Maozi fleet in the port, resulting in the annihilation of the Russian army's Pacific fleet .
The Japanese army invested 130,000 troops in this tough battle, and more than 60,000 people were killed, which is a typical tragic victory.
This battle is also the world's first large-scale modernized fortress siege battle. The grenades , mortars , rapid-fire howitzers, machine guns , trenches, barbed wire, etc. used in the World War I trench warfare comes standard.
At this time, Maozi was still sending troops to the battlefield. As early as the early days of the war, Tsar Nicholas II ordered the Russian Baltic Fleet to go to the Far East to support the Pacific Fleet operations.
But this hard-fought fleet was ill-fated from the moment it set sail. I don't know where the rumors came from that the Japanese army had sent a fleet to ambush the Russian army. The Russian army was so nervous that it sank a British fishing boat as a Japanese warship on the way. The
Aurora cruiser , which became famous in the future, was also hit 5 times in this farce. This is really a rhythm that even beats himself. Fortunately, the level of the Russian army is too bad, otherwise the first shot of the October Revolution would not have been fired on the Aurora .
was worrying about how to make the stumbling Great Britain escalate the matter immediately, posing a posture that would not hesitate to fight the Russian army.
Maozi was already at a loss for words, so he could no longer cause trouble for himself. After 66,000 pounds of compensation for the victims and the entire fleet was detained for 7 days, he set sail again.
Britain also took the opportunity to impose corresponding sanctions - the Russian fleet was not allowed to dock in the British colony for rest.
is nothing at all, and the earth is not all British, but France, which has the second largest colony in the world, although it is an ally with Russia, under the common goal of maintaining the current world order, the Russian fleet will not be allowed to dock.
is good now, big brothers like Britain and France are doing the same, then the younger brothers like Spain and Portugal will also have tokeep up.
Since the colonies of Britain and France occupied almost half of the world at that time, and these little brothers who fell into trouble, the situation of this Russian fleet can only be described as pitiful. On the vast sea of
, the mighty Baltic fleet became an orphan in an instant. The only supplier of supplies to the Russian fleet is actually Germany, which is no wonder, I hope to break the existing order and take the opportunity to make a fortune. The poor Russian fleet departed from the Baltic Sea. Since it could not pass through the British-controlled Suez Canal, it could only bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and head to China, passing through the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea, bypassing half the world, and the journey is about 3 10,000 kilometers, that is a pain. Once the
fleet finds a place to supply, it will desperately add coal, and all places on the ship, even where the crew sleeps, must be loaded with coal as much as possible. The soldiers engaged by
complained that there were many cases of illness, suicide by jumping into the sea, and even soldier riots broke out.
When the Russian Navy's reinforcement fleet was sweating profusely on the sea voyage, the Russian Army also gathered more than 300,000 troops in Fengtian (now Shenyang) to prepare to go south and compete with the Japanese army.
At this time, the Japanese army was in short supply, and the compulsive gambler's characteristics broke out again, and it was stud again. Assembled 250,000 troops to take the initiative to attack, and won another bet, but the Japanese also lost nearly 70,000 in this battle.
In May 1905, the exhausted and long-traveled Baltic Fleet finally arrived in the combat area. The original plan was to go to Vladivostok before going to battle, but the cunning Japanese navy would not give the Russian army this chance. Tsushima Strait has been waiting for a long time.
In the world-renowned Tsushima Sea Battle , the Russian army lost six of its sixteen warships and seven were captured, while the Japanese lost only three torpedo boats, which is an epic victory. At this point in the
battle, Japan's finances have bottomed out, and Maozi's domestic revolution is about to break out.
did not want the United States, which is too rude in Japan, to jump out and mediate. In September 1905, under the mediation of US President Roosevelt, representatives of Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, the United States. , officially announcing the end of the war.
According to the provisions of the treaty, Russia transferred all the rights and interests of Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula to Japan, and ceded the South Sakhalin Island.
In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army participated in the war of 400,000 people, killed more than 80,000 people, wounded more than 150,000 people, and captured about 2,000 people; the Russian army participated in the war of 500,000 people, with less than 15,000 deaths and more than 140,000 wounded. Nearly 80,000 people were captured. In this way, Japan is indeed a disastrous victory.
This battle allowed Japan to consolidate its absolute control over the Korean peninsula, gain the Port of Port Arthur, and at the same time make Japan one of the world's great powers.
In the Japan-Russia peace talks after the end of the war, Qing, as the biggest victim of the war, was excluded from the peace talks, and in the end only accepted the reality that Japan and Russia re-divided the sphere of influence in the Northeast.
Although during the war, the neutral Qing Dynasty spared no effort to secretly help Japan, hoping to reclaim the Northeast with Japanese power, but it turns out that it is foolish to place hope on others, especially jackal , only you are strong. to really stand up.
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let the movie shine into history
let history shine into the future
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