Oh, My Beloved Concubine 2023

At the beginning of the movie, director Hu Jie (played by Zhang Zifu) told actress Li Yuanman (played by Chen Cuimei) a story. "When Miyamoto Musashi was very old, a young man came to challenge him. They made an appointment to duel on the mountain at noon the next day. But Miyamoto Musashi did not show up until the sun reached the west. The young man was very angry. Miyamoto Musashi turned his back to the sun. At the critical moment of the duel, he deliberately let the young man face the dazzling sunlight and killed him in an instant." "Isn't this victory without force?" "For that young man, the sword is everything. For the old Miyamoto Musashi, everything is a sword. Sunshine is a sword, and time is also a sword." Yuanyuan looked at Zijie, "So?" "In the past, movies were everything. Now, everything is a movie. If we stay out of it and be a calm bystander in our own lives, life is a movie." "You didn't ask me to make a Hong Sang-soo movie, right?" Zijie smiled and shook his head, "I want to make an action movie.