The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。【STORY】 这部「战国鬼才传」的作品以群雄割据的战国时代为舞台,主角古田重然本身是织田信长的家臣古田重然,身为武士与雅士的他,从天才信长之处学到了壮大的世界观,本身希望追求出人头地的机会,但自从遇见了茶圣千宗易处学得了深远的精神性之后,他便变成被茶道与物慾夺去灵魂的男人。 【STAFF】 原作:山田芳裕「战国鬼才传」(第14回手冢治虫文化赏漫画大赏) 监督:真下耕一(「MADLAX」「无限的住人」「PHANTOM」) 系列构成:川崎广雪(「心灵侦探八云」) 动画制作:Bee Train 制作:综合Vision 制作・著作:NHK 【CAST】 古田左介:大仓孝二织田信长:小山力也羽柴秀吉:江原正士千宗易:田中信夫明智光秀:田中秀幸徳川家康:鹤见辰吾。