Salted maggoted raw pork
What was the meaning of this? Did he eat it mearly because he thought it would make him stronger or is there some type of underlying meaning behind it? (he does live to be very old)
shareI seen this film ages ago, so my memory isn't too clear, but wasn't he hoarding food? Times being tough and that, in the era of the film. I thought he was doing it cos he was hungry and didn't really mind about the maggots, in fact he didn't really seem to care period, kitano's character, that is. And although his hidden stash had maggots, it was too good to waste.
I don't think - although maybe im wrong- that this has some hidden meaning or by doing it would make you stronger, he did afterall wipe the maggots off didn't he? so if it made you stronger/live longer you wouldn't wipe them off, you'd think the more the better.
I would think that too but he tries to feed it to his mistress and tells her it will make her stronger.
I wondered if he wanted to somehow harden himself in a masochistic way (body becomes resistant to bacteria or something) Because no one was really starving and everyone who saw it thought it was revolting.
"Salted maggoted raw pork" is very old Korean food that has many nutritional .
shareOh very nice
Similar to haggis or norways lutefish
(first is oats cooked in sheep entrails, not so bad. Second is fish set in lye and buried in the ground several years then eaten)
Thanks. that is the clarrification I wanted.
What the...? Where'd you get that information?
shareGive me a break. How naive does a person have to be to take that piece of Korea-bashing crap seriously? Or should I say, how much of a racist maggot does a japanophile have to be to spew out such lies in the first place?
You know, I've been noticing a number of these totally uncalled-for bits of lies and misinformation maligning Korea and Koreans on this board, and when I look up the users who post them, they always seem to be Japanese (or possibly wannabes). But what they're obviously too dumb to realize is that such behavior only reflects badly on Japan, because it seems to suggest being immersed in Japanese culture turns people into racist/nationalist hatemongers.
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I might be nearly five years too late to answer the thread opener directly but I thought it was alot simpler than any hidden meaning.
Kitano's character is ruthless, especially concerning his own wealth to the point where despite gathering all the millions of yen over many years we never really see him spend it, except for his mistress once she has become ill. He doesn't even want to give a penny towards his wife's cancer treatment.
He could be eating the rotting pork simply because he doesn't want to spend any money. There is a minor scene where he is crouching beside green vegetables piled on the floor of a market and is picking some for himself - a worker dishes out more of the vegetables on the pile and gives Kitano's character an awkward look - possibly indicating that it is just rubbish. The next shot is of Kitano's character eating them at home.
I might be wrong but that's what I thought at the time.
Ruthless? Huh, he's just being a tight-fisted, parsimonious, ungenerous, penny-pinching, self-absorbed, selfish, stingy, extreme frugal, petty-minded, illiberal bastard.
¥700M is a lot, tho.
If that amount was what he donated to NK in 1985, it would be like donating US$12 million if he did it today if we take inflation adjustments into account. Not bad an amount for 55 years' worth of frugality and labor exploitation in a ghetto.