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starkhorn
10-28-2002, 17:07
Just wondering if anyone knew what film the title sequence in MI is from ?
You know the one, where there is this old guy and his castle is burning all around him. It looked really cool......anyone know ?
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TenkiSoratoti
10-28-2002, 17:34
Me thinks that is from the film RONIN but im not to sure.
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ShinKamiizumi
10-28-2002, 18:26
RAN by Akira Kurosawa.
BakaGaijin
10-29-2002, 02:13
Ronin? Like the Robert DeNiro Ronin? That?
Nyekulturniy!
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Fearless
10-29-2002, 19:46
According to my Library of Samurai Films it was Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
If you are interested These films by the same director are a must: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Yojimbo.
I've also been recommended Samurai Banners but as yet I haven't got it.
Ferocious Imbecile
10-29-2002, 22:08
Quote Originally posted by Fearless:
According to my Library of Samurai Films it was Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
If you are interested These films by the same director are a must: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Yojimbo.
I've also been recommended Samurai Banners but as yet I haven't got it.[/QUOTE]
My favorite Kurosawa; The Hidden Fortress. A Kensai tricks and bullies two silly runaway Yari Ashagarus into helping him rescue a beautiful princess and her gold in the aftermath of the defeat of her clan in battle.
Kobungo Inuta
10-29-2002, 22:30
Where can you get those movies? I've been dying for some real samurai cinema to balance out my recent glut of kung-fu movies. Is there a place I can go online??
Koubungo Inuta
starkhorn
10-30-2002, 16:17
Quote Originally posted by Fearless:
According to my Library of Samurai Films it was Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
If you are interested These films by the same director are a must: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Yojimbo.
I've also been recommended Samurai Banners but as yet I haven't got it.[/QUOTE]
Okay thanks lads. RAN.....I'll see if I can find it anywhere.
Yeah I love Kurosawa films.....seen Seven Samurai and Kagemusha. Both brillant. Is Yojimbo the one where the samurai comes to town and there are 2 gangs fighting for control ? (The one where Eastwood stared in the western remake of fistful of dollars ?)
If so then I've seen that one as well.
Thanks folks for the answers though.
Baka!
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Brown Wolf
11-11-2002, 04:21
Hey, where can I find some of these movies?
Fearless
11-14-2002, 17:02
Try www.hmv.co.uk they nomally have quite a nice selection. Also type in Samurai Films at any search engine or better still download copernic from downloads.com this opens up several search engines in one hit
Hey Guys,
I got my copy of RAN from the local HMV. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding it in some of the larger local record/entertainment shops.
Often put in foreign film (which is not that strange, since it is, well, a foreign film), but I'm sure those helpful fella's at the counter would be more than happy to look it up for you.
RAN is Kurosawa's interpretation of Shakespeare's "King Lear" (though I think the back of the box would have told you that anyway).
Azrael
Ithaskar Fëarindel
11-19-2002, 02:16
This can go in The Monastery (History) now.
Ran on amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/offering-page/ref=sdp_usedv_h_/202-4730815-2399029?index=fixed-price&field-offering-type=used&field-asin=B00004RY0I&field-status=open&size=25&rank=+price)
RAN is a great movie, but it also has MANY dead spots. This is a deliberate, slow drama about a warlord's downfall, not BRAVEHEART in Japan.
Shogun: TW obviously owes a big debt to the battle scenes in RAN, but RAN's not about the fighting for the most part.
Other good samurai movies:
The Samurai Trilogy (about Miyamoto Musashi)
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=14
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=15
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=16
For more recent samurai fare, you can't go wrong with GOJOE.
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/gojoe.shtml
The best of the best of the chanbara "swordplay" genre is probably the LONE WOLF AND CUB series. Great swordplay sequences are marred by cartoonish blood spurts and a baby carriage filled with guns(!http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif, but there's a real story behind the series as well as a scathing critique of Japanese feudalism.
http://www.amazon.com/exec....6602442 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-4327112-6602442)
Almost as good is the long-running ZATOICHI series, about a wandering blind swordsman.
http://www.amazon.com/exec....6602442 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-4327112-6602442)
Forward Observer
11-20-2002, 01:45
Actually the plot from Yojimbo has been ripped off twice.
First in the spagetti western "Fistful of Dollars" and more recently in "Last Man Standing" starring Bruce Willis.
The setting was changed this time to the roaring 20's with warring bootleggers.
Also the plot from Seven Samurai was made into another big Western--"The Magnificent Seven". with Yule Brynner, James Colburn, and Steve McQueen.
Cheers
I read somewhere that ROAD TO PERDITION (Tom Hanks and Jude Law) was based on LONE WOLF AND CUB.
Gloucester
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