No.2749
What are your favorite Samurai films, /film/? I'm a huge fan of the genre, Harakiri is my favorite. I also like the Zatoichi series, all of the Kurosawa ones, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Sword of Doom. I'm looking for lesser known Samurai flick recommendations, so let me know what you guys's favorites are
No.2756
Sword of Doom is one of my favorites at the moment.
No.2772
Harakiri is my favorite as well. Samurai Rebellion is another Kobayashi masterpiece and must see.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto and Three Outlaw Samurai are a few other underrated ones.
No.2783
Goyokin is another one worth seeing
No.2823
No.2973
>>2749>All this tasteYou're all my Daimyos.
Bumping with my favourite Samurai movie.
No.2976
>>2973I really need to see that one
I mostly enjoyed Yojimbo but it's not quite as good as what's already been mentioned
No.2984
Sword of Doom is up there pretty high on my list.
I still need to see HaraKiri one day when I get the chance. The Musashi trilogy was decent.
No.2988
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Love this scene.
No.2996
there was a really good one from maybe ten years ago, about a blind samurai wanting revenge for his wife being raped by a superior samurai but i can't recall the title of the film. anyone?
No.2997
>>2973that flick is in effect, the absolute masterpiece.
No.3654
>>2823>>2973My favourites.
No.3662
I've only seen Kagemusha and the start of Yojimbo, I like their gumption and I'm trying to get into this kind of stuff, can any one recommend any entry level ones. Maybe some non Akira Kurosawa movies
No.3664
No.3665
>>3662I'm still watching some of these myself but you can't go wrong with Harakiri.
No.3677
No.3678
>>2749>>2756>>2973>>2984You all should check out Shura (Demons) by Matsumoto. He normally doesn't make Jidaigeki or Chanbara but this one is great, definately on point with Sword of Doom, lot of similarities too.
Don't be apalled by the awful imdb cover
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165473/ No.3680
>>3678 here
Im now a half hour into Kill, so far very amusing.
Came to mind I saw this trailer for a new samurai flick but I can't seem to be able to find it anywhere yet, please help me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-hs5NUv6s No.3681
>>3662Yojimbo
Hidden Fortress
Rashomon
Seppuku (Hara Kiri)
Samurai Rebellion (bit boring imo but still entry level i guess)
No.3694
Sword of Doom
Seven Samurai
Ran
Yojimbo
Kagemusha
Samurai Rebellion
Harakiri
13 Assassins
The Hidden Fortress
Throne of Blood
Musashi Miyamoto
Twilight Samurai
The Hidden Blade
Love and Honour
After the Rain
Zatoichi(there's too many for me to pick one)
No.3695
>>3694Oh I forgot:
Sanjuro
Kochiyama Soshun
The Million Ryo Pot
Humanity and Paper Balloons
Rashomon
Sukiyaki Western Django (batshit insane Samurai/Spaghetti-Western tribute to Django/Yojimbo)
Red Sun (Bronson vs Mifune, need I say more?)
No.3697
>>3695Drat I also forgot:
The 47 Ronin (Mizugichi)
Akô-jô danzetsu
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Samurai Assassin
47 Samurai
No.3753
Finished Yojimbo, I really enjoyed it, it was fun and easy to watch. Would anyone recommend watching the sequel Sanjuro?
No.3754
>>3753Absolutely, it's a great film. Somewhat more light hearted than Yojimbo and the swordplay is excellent.
No.3755
Any good one's on Netflix breh?
No.3757
>>3680Gonne give it another try. Anyone know where to get Bushido/Shundou (2013)? I really want to see this.
No.3784
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Does anyone know why the Sword of Doom trilogy was not made as planned?
I see that an earlier film Satan's Sword – which was made into a trilogy – covers the same story.
No.3789
>>3784Sadly nobody knows for certain. The most likely answer however is that given the sheer length of the novel and costs of making films that long combined with the dwindling numbers of people in Japan going to the cinema due to the rise of Television made the producers too doubtful on whether they'd get their money back.
Personally I'm kind of glad that the rest were never made, I love the sudden ending.
No.3799
>>3789If they weren't planning on a making more films, they would have certainly ended things differently. I think the ending would have been changed to something with less of an impact. I wonder what the new commentary track has to say about it.
No.3820
>>3757Looks interesting, I can't find it either
>>3784Actually, it's been done several times:
First in the 30s starring Denjirô Ôkôchi with Hiroshi Inagaki directing:
Daibosatsu tôge: dai-ippen - Kôgen itto-ryû no maki (1935)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200557/Daibosatsu tôge: Suzuka-yama no maki - Mibu Shimabara no maki (1936)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961182/Then there was a trilogy in 1953 at the Toei Studios starring Chiezo Kataoka, which is not registered in the imdb and all but forgotten in Japan as well. But Kataoka apparently liked the character a lot and it was remade a few years later. This trilogy (Souls in the Moonlight), directed by Tomu Uchida has become a classic, although there was some controversy as Kataoka was considered to be too old for the role:
Daibosatsu tôge (1957)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199443/Daibosatsu tôge - Dai ni bu (1958)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960751/Daibosatsu tôge - Kanketsu-hen (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960752/Just a year later, Daiei Studios followed with their version (Satan's Sword) starring their biggest star Raizo Ichikawa with Kenji Misumi as director. Raizo is generally considered the quintessential Ryunosuke, although some people prefer Nakadai:
Daibosatsu tôge (1960)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409866/Daibosatsu toge: Ryujin no maki (1960)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199444/Daibosatsu toge: Kanketsu-hen (1961)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199445/ /some interesting information I copied and pasted
No.3825
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>>2749The "best" samurai movie I know about is definitely Ran, though Seven Samurai might be a personal favourite, and Kurosawa is my favourite director.
>>3678I'll check it out.
No.3834
>>3820Thank you very much for these titles. Sword of Doom is definately one of my favourites and im very curious to see another man's interpetation of the same story and character.
No.4033
Mifune has such a great character in Samurai Rebellion … one of my favorites of his roles.
I'm wondering how much you guys pay attention to the time period of specific Japanese films? I was thinking it would be nice to have a better grasp of what was happening in Japan in the centuries when these films are set. So given a particular year, you'd generally know what to expect – rather than thinking it's all in some vague samurai era.
No.4039
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>>2749Watch Ugetsu.
One of those most beautiful films I've seen to date.
and check out the rest of Mizoguchi's work while your at it.
No.4041
I've seen a good share of Samurai flicks, but I think all of them I saw were set around the Sengoku time period. I'm looking for some of that 'Samurai vs. Modernity' flavor, so any films set around, say, the Bakumatsu era that are good?
No.4052
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I like this video review of kurosawas work very much. it's only 8 minutes, so i recommend it to anyone who wants to know why the films are so appealing
No.4055
Lately I came across "uzumasa limelight", over the life of a samurai cinema extra.
is not great cinema but is an easy and heartwarming movie
No.4072
>>4052Shit man, this'll make a great source for my research project on Kurosawa.
No.4359
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Let's keep this thread bumped up, I'm enjoying samurai films a lot as of late, just finished Ran and it was stunning (I enjoyed yojimbo more though)
One thing i was curious about, and can't find the answer to, is why there are so many images of clouds intercut into the film, any ideas?
Also any non-Akira Kurosawa samurai films that are considered to be obligatory viewing for the genre?
No.4388
>>4359A lot of the films mentioned in this thread aren't by Kurosawa.
3 from the top of my head that I'd say are the best non Kurosawa samurai films:
Seppuku (Hara Kiri)
Sword of Doom
Shura
But as usual, these are opinions.
No.4852
>>3799
>I wonder what the new commentary track has to say about it.
About the sequel? I listened to the commentary track and there's no further information, but it sounded like Sword of Doom underperformed at Japanese theaters. That likely contributed to the decision to abandon the project. The film was, however, more successful with Western audiences.
One more interesting point was that the source material never properly concluded either. It was an ongoing newspaper serial from 1913 to 1941(!). The author Kaizan Nakazato died in 1944.
No.6431
>>3678
I second this. Underrated gem.
No.6432
>>6427
or a genius for picking a fucking fantastic samurai film for a western.
like, if it wasn't for yojimbo and eastwood, i'm sure fistful of dollars would have been shit.
No.6433
Don't really care of samurai shit. 13 assassins got me and Seven Samurai, but nothing else really.
No.6443
>>6432
It wouldn't existed in the first place
And honestly The Man with no Name is small time compared to the character Sanjuro is, instead of the Mary Sue that was somewhat fixed in other movies with a suspicious similar shooter but with a different director
No.6447
>>6443
>The Man with no Name is small time compared to the character Sanjuro is
i'm not sure what you mean by this
because eastwood has had a much larger impact on culture n stuff
No.6474
>>4072
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ZXwoqeQnvzc
was looking for other videos about kurosawa and found this if it helps.
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Just saw the first film in the Samurai Trilogy- I was a bit underwhelmed with the ending it seemed really rushed skipping 4 years of his training
There were some glorious panning shots in there though
Are the sequels any better