-
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
samuri movies
- Thread starter SQUIRE
- Start date
rent Heaven and Earth if you can find it (good luck)...and NOT the Tommy Lee Jones Vietnam wartime romance flick...Heaven & Earth is a subtitled Japanese film has some of the best battles scenes and some great duels.
Also, the movie RAN (another Japanese film, this one by Akira Kurosawa) has some intense, graphic battles and sieges.
Lastly, any of the older black and white Kurosawa films (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, etc.) have some well researched/executed swordsmanship sprinkled in with all the artsy stuff.
------------------
Condition Yellow: for a longer, happier life.
Also, the movie RAN (another Japanese film, this one by Akira Kurosawa) has some intense, graphic battles and sieges.
Lastly, any of the older black and white Kurosawa films (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, etc.) have some well researched/executed swordsmanship sprinkled in with all the artsy stuff.
------------------
Condition Yellow: for a longer, happier life.
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2001
- Messages
- 48
Heaven and Earth seems more concrned with style than substance whereas Seven Samurai is more substance than style. 7 Sam is a great movie! The intricacies of their lives and vocations/stations in life determined by huge socio-economic conditions at that time and the way they maintain their indivdual dignities regardles of such circumstance is quite inspiring! The lead character in charge of the Samurai,forget his name, is quite a role-model! Quite a virtuous man. May have to rent it again myself!
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2001
- Messages
- 48
Heaven and Earth seems more concrned with style than substance whereas Seven Samurai is more substance than style. 7 Sam is a great movie! The intricacies of their lives and vocations/stations in life determined by huge socio-economic conditions at that time and the way they maintain their indivdual dignities regardles of such circumstance is quite inspiring! The lead character in charge of the Samurai,forget his name, is quite a role-model! Quite a virtuous man. May have to rent it again myself!
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2001
- Messages
- 48
Heaven and Earth seems to be more style than substance whereas Seven Samurai has more substance. 7 Sam is a great movie! The depiction of the characters lives beset by huge socio-economic circumstances and the dignity they retain and exude regardless of circumstance is admirable. Especially the Head Man and the qualities he displays-when and how he displays his abilities, is educational. Quite a virtuous man. Aside from the almost comical exaggeration of the villagers this movie portrays and conveys much to be desired by any group or individual. Let me say it again, this is a great movie!
The six Kozure Ookami/Lone Wolf and Cub/ Babycart movies are available on video and dvd and are worth a look. So is Shogun Assassin, the dubbed re-edited American cut combining Babycart I and II; Shogun Assassin became an early 80s cult film itself prior to the release of the six originals. None of these productions is as authentic as the incredibly detailed Japanese comicbook series it is based on (which is being retranslated and brought overhere by Dark Horse Comics) but the movies do offer some awesome swordplay.
Hideo Gosha did a number of acclaimed samurai films during the sixties and seventies. His Hunter in the Dark was released here on video during the eighties and is very worth seeking out. It details the intrigue between Yakuza, ronin and ambitious samurai (Sonny Chiba).
The Zato Ichi films are also worth seeking out. Starring the brother of the fellow who headlined in the Lone Wolf films, a number of them have been released here by different distributors. They might be a bit too fanciful for some tastes (a shrewd blind swordsman who can hear better most people can see) but the weaponsplay is just one reason they were popular for a long time.
The American film, The Yakuza, paired a gun toting Robert Mitchum up with a tough but honorable gangster armed with traditional Japanese weapons. It contained some effective action scenes.
Jeff
Hideo Gosha did a number of acclaimed samurai films during the sixties and seventies. His Hunter in the Dark was released here on video during the eighties and is very worth seeking out. It details the intrigue between Yakuza, ronin and ambitious samurai (Sonny Chiba).
The Zato Ichi films are also worth seeking out. Starring the brother of the fellow who headlined in the Lone Wolf films, a number of them have been released here by different distributors. They might be a bit too fanciful for some tastes (a shrewd blind swordsman who can hear better most people can see) but the weaponsplay is just one reason they were popular for a long time.
The American film, The Yakuza, paired a gun toting Robert Mitchum up with a tough but honorable gangster armed with traditional Japanese weapons. It contained some effective action scenes.
Jeff