(Reprinted from the Internet, it should be quite old, and it may even have been written in the last century.) Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info)

The famous Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's new work "Imperial Law" can now be seen in the domestic VCD market. The film is set in the 19th century, shortly before the Meiji Restoration. At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan, organized a police force, the Shinshokumi, in order to suppress the terrorist activities of the Shogunate faction in Kyoto. The film depicts a beautiful young man, Soichiro Garana (played by Ryuhei Matsuda), and the strong impact he has on the group when he joins the new writing group. Same-sex love uses a very beautiful tone and a dignified atmosphere throughout the film.

In fact, in history, a complete list of more than 700 members before and after the new compilation group has not even appeared with the surname Ghana. On the other hand, there is indeed a beautiful boy in the new writing group, whose gorgeous, tenacious, and short-lived life like a meteor have been transformed into various legends, which have been admired and admired by later generations. That is, the leader of the new writing team, Soji Okita.

Okita Soji, known as Ryo Bo, was born in Musashi Province in the 13th or 15th year of Tenpo (1844), and his father, Katsujiro Okita, was a retainer of Notomori Abe of the Shirakawa Domain of Mutsu Province. Katsujiro was very weak and died at a young age, and the adoptive father of the head secretary, Inoue Rintaro, also left the feudal domain for no reason and went to a distant place. At the age of eight, he entered a rural dojo called "Trial Guard Hall" to learn the swordsmanship of natural mindfulness.

There is also a theory that the origin of these identities was made up by the General Secretary himself after he became an adult. He's just an abandoned baby who was adopted by Shusaku Kondo, the owner of the Tester Pavilion. But no matter what, Zhou Zuo's adopted son Isamu Kondo and his disciple Toyozo Hijikata raised the head secretary like a father and a brother, but it is a fact that everyone admits. The Director-General's love and reverence for these two people directly guided him through his short but brilliant life journey.

The head secretary is handsome and very popular, but he doesn't rely on this, or on his own to win the love of the new hall owner Isamu Kondo, to determine his status in the dojo. He practiced swordsmanship hard, and before he was nineteen years old, he obtained the exemption of the natural flow of reason (that is, he was already qualified to open his own door to teach disciples). It is said that he is good at using the "sudden" technique (and this is the biggest feature of the natural rational flow swordsmanship, remember the description of the original "three-stage stab" of the head secretary in "Wind and Fire Heroes"), Isamu Kondo has always thought that he is the best person for the next generation of the head of the sect.

There is a legend that Isamu Kondo had an adopted daughter who often came to the dojo to help with washing and cleaning. After a long period of contact, he fell in love with the head office, and finally mustered up the courage to confess to his sweetheart. Regrettably, however, the director only replied coldly, "I'm still ...... in my cultivation." The girl who was rejected, in pain and shame, even committed suicide by cutting her throat with a knife. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and his life was saved, and he was forced to marry by his parents soon after...... What a poignant love story. The girl didn't understand, but the head secretary had decided to dedicate everything he had to the practice of kendo and repay the love for nurturing.

In the third year of Bunkyu (1863), the shogunate recruited a team of ronins to maintain law and order in Kyoto, and all the members of the Tryan Hall went to sign up under the leadership of Kondo and Hijikata. Due to various reasons, in the end, the plan of the Ronin team was canceled, but under the planning of Matsudaira Rongho, the guardian of Kyoto, a new writing team was born.

In the early days of the new writing team, there were three directors of the bureau, in addition to Isamu Kondo, there were Serizawa and Niimi Nishiki. Serizawa was overbearing and irritable, which had a very bad impact on the new writing team, but the backstage was too hard to bring him down through normal channels. In desperation, Kondo's party decided to take decisive action (it is said that it was the first suggestion made by the head office) - on the night of September 13 of that year, Kyoto was stormy, and five people, including Kondo, Hijikata, and Okita, suddenly entered a certain ryoti in the Shimabara area and killed Serizawa, who was having a tryst with his lover. Serizawa is a master of Shinto's thoughtless stream, but he was easily cut down in a narrow room that couldn't be closed at all, and no one dared to despise the natural flow of reason as a country swordsmanship.

Shortly thereafter, Niimi Nishiki was also blamed for the accident, and Isamu Kondo became the sole director, and the members of the Tester Hall effectively took control of the Shinsho group. The general department became the leader of the team, the deputy assistant officer, and also served as a fencing demonstration. It is said that he was very fond of children, and when he was in Kyoto, he often used to play with children in the vicinity of Mibuji Temple (Shinjokumi Tunsho) when he was in Kyoto. At that time, he was only twenty years old, perhaps he still retained his innocent innocence, or to compensate for the loneliness left over from his lonely childhood......

This kind of innocent heart only fights for the people and sects he loves, and although he is disgusted, he is not afraid to make his hands stained with blood...... That's why Nobuhiro Wazuki created the image of the "Heavenly Sword" Sojiro Seta in "Rogue Kenshin" - isn't the source of that image the Soji Okita when he was in Kyoto?

On the night of June 5, 1864, more than 30 people gathered at a small inn in Kyoto called Ikedaya to discuss a plan to overthrow the shogunate. Due to the leakage of information, the entire new writing team gathered at Yasaka Shrine, led by the director Kondo himself, and made a surprise attack on Ikedaya. This was the battle that made the new writing group famous all over the world, and the general secretary waved the sword "begging for food and clear light" and charged forward. Although there are many kendo masters among the warriors, no one can walk in front of him for three rounds. Seven men of the Shoshu Empire fell in a pool of blood and lost their lives – including the famous Choshu Zenjue Yoshida Minoru Yoshida, Higo Shigesuke Matsuda, and Kumamoto Domain's military science teacher Miyabe Dingzo – and the rest were taken prisoner.

At the end of the fight, the chief secretary, covered in the blood of the enemy, fell for no reason. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which was considered incurable at the time. From then on, violent coughing, vomiting blood, and getting weaker and weaker accompanied this beautiful young swordsman, step by step towards eternal death (the beautiful boy who was also good at swordsmanship, but died young because of tuberculosis, and Tamiya Botaro in the early Tokugawa shogunate, is this a real coincidence?). Or is it a coincidence caused by legend? ）。

The situation in the world is fluid, and the efforts of the new writing team do not change its direction. The power of the shogunate gradually declined, and the fallen shogunate feudal clans united and finally set off the Boshin War. The shogunate army abandoned Kyoto and closed its line in the direction of Edo, and the Shinshogumi retreated towards Edo with them.

The head secretary did not flee to Edo, he stayed near Kyoto and said goodbye to his father and brother who raised him. He began to deteriorate suddenly at the end of last year. Soon after, he was sent to the home of Heigoro Uekiya in the countryside of Sentai Valley to recuperate, and spent the last days of his life in this place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

In the Battle of Fushimi and Toba, the shogunate army was completely defeated, and the shocking swordsmanship of the cadres of the new writing group could not stop the advance of the new government army with muskets on their shoulders. Eventually, after the defeat of Kofu, Isamu Kondo surrendered and was sentenced to beheading in April of the fourth year of Keio (1868). Toshizo Hijikata led the remnants of the Shinsho group north to Ezo and was killed by indiscriminate gunfire when the new government forces attacked Goryokaku in the second year of the Meiji era (1869).

The news of Kondo's death reached the ears of the head office a month later. He thinks back to his life, his life working for the flow of natural reason, fighting for the new group, and relentlessly wielding his sword to slash his father and his brother Kondo and Hijikata through the troubled times. Now that Kondo is dead, Hijikata is leading the remnants north, and it can't last, and the new team has completed its historical mission, and it should be over, so what about his own life? What is the meaning of the existence of one's own life?

On May 30, Okita General Priest Boryo died quietly alone at his home in Uekiya. After his death, he was posthumously ordained a monk of Kenko-in Temple, and was buried at the temple in Tokyo.