The Great Wall (2015)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 15分
演出 : Tadhg O'Sullivan
シノプシス
‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.
フン族の軍勢に苦しむ戦乱の中国。皇帝は各家から一人の兵士を出すように命じる。ムーランは、老いた父親に代わって軍に兵士として加わることを決意。髪を切り名前をビンと変え、勇猛な兵士に変装する。ムーランは過酷な訓練を経て、戦場で目をみはる大活躍を繰り広げる。
When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.
再びG・ハックマン扮する悪の天才レックス・ルーサーが登場、核エネルギーから創り出した“悪のスーパーマン”ニュークリアマンを使ってスーパーマンに戦いを挑む。「アイアン・イーグル」(87)のS・J・フューリーが監督。
現代から、約2000年前の古代中国。五行を操る魔力と、強大な武力を持った皇帝は、全土制圧の野望に取り付かれていた。その達成の為、不死の力を必要とした皇帝は、妖術師の女ツイ・ユアンに不死の力獲得を命じ、部下のミン・グオ将軍を伴わせ、遥かシルクロードに派遣した。そこでツイ・ユアンは不死の魔術を発見する。目的を果し都に戻って来た2人だが、彼女がミン・グオと愛し合うようになったことを知った皇帝は、2人に卑劣な罠を仕掛けた。愛するミン・グオが処刑される姿を目の当たりにしたツイ・ユアンは、深い悲しみと怒りから皇帝と臣下全員に呪いをかける。
ギリシャのサントリーニ島で地震が発生し、地中海海底から“月の神殿”が姿をあらわした。ララは仲間とともに遺跡に直行し、アレクサンダー大王像胸部にはめ込まれたメダリオンと鉄の檻に入れられた黄金の珠を発見する。だが、その二つを取り出そうとしたとき、彼女は謎の部隊に襲われ、二つとも奪われた挙句、仲間を殺された。
金と名声を得るため、中国へと赴いた白人の傭兵のウィリアムとトバールは、ようやく万里の長城にたどり着き、そこで思いも寄らぬ光景を目の当たりにする。長城では、完全武装した大軍団が、敵を迎え撃つべく臨戦態勢に入っていたが、そこへ巨大な地響きとともに、はるか山の向こうから、未知の怪物の大群が怒濤のごとく押し寄せてきたのだった。その恐るべき正体は、60年に1度現われるという伝説の怪物“とうてつ”だった。
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
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