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Offline Karnak

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What is the greatest samurai movie?
« on: August 17, 2013, 10:26:27 PM »
I know many will jump on the obvious one, Seven Samurai, but though that is a great movie I think I prefer Yojimbo.  For me Seven Samurai feels a bit long.  It has a lot of great scenes, such as this one of the duel between the swordsman and an unknown samurai and this rather pointed commentary on the corruptness of the whole society, but I enjoy Yojimbo more.

It is interesting how smoothly samurai films translate into westerns and how easily westerns are remade as samurai films.  The cowboy and the ronin are both romanticized loners I guess.  Here is an interesting remix of the final fight in Yojibo with the score from A Fistful of Dollars playing over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0R8nMepkU

Which samurai films do you guys like?
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2013, 01:01:40 AM »
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Samurai - the three part epic. I love the scene, in the tavern, where he catchs flys with his chopsticks, letting the young punks that are thinking about picking on him in the tavern, know what they would be in for.

And even though it may not technically count as a samurai movie - Rashoman.

As an honorable mention, I would add Shogun - the mini-series with Richard Chamberlin & Toshiro Mufune.

Kurosawa was quite pleased with the movie Magnificent Seven. He admired the works of Ford and Peckinpah.

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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 06:29:53 AM »
7 Samurai is a brilliant masterpiece.

The latest Zatoichi is also a great movie with a very fresh approach to the genre.

Shogun's shadow is a movie I enjoyed many years ago. In this case it seems to be the opposite of 7 Samurai in the sense that it feels like a western translated into samurai.
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 06:41:55 AM »
Here is a winner http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1728196/ currently on Netflix.

Maybe not a great action movie but a great MOVIE.
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2013, 09:01:16 AM »
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2013, 09:05:06 AM »
Quote from: Meatwad on August 18, 2013, 09:01:16 AM
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Don't think that is a samurai movie. :p
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2013, 10:28:25 AM »
Works as good as one. Poorly dubbed into english and cheese plot

Best kind :)
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2013, 11:15:11 AM »
One of my favorites is "The Sword of Doom", although it's been ages since I saw it.  I ran across it by chance while watching IFC one weekend.

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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2013, 12:04:35 PM »
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Here is an interesting remix of the final fight in Yojibo with the score from A Fistful of Dollars playing over it.

Then again, A Fistful of Dollars IS Yojimbo...

And wasn't someone doing a remake of Unforgiven as a Samurai movie?
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2013, 01:41:48 PM »
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2013, 02:29:47 PM »


Haha.  Ahahaha.  Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa.


I had high hopes for the new 47 Ronin.  Alas, after seeing the previews, and how they've "magic'd" it up with typical Hollywood flying through the air with laser beam spells and other BS, I don't have ANY hope any longer.  Such a shame, one of the great stories in martial history, and they had to do this with it. 
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2013, 02:41:23 PM »
I'll reserve judgment until I see some actual reviews. It may not be a "historical" retelling, but from the as a fantasy movie it looks promising.
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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2013, 04:33:39 PM »
Zatoichi are my favorite Samurai movies.....I watch them all the time on Holu  :aok


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Re: What is the greatest samurai movie?
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2013, 06:46:47 PM »
Duh! The last Sumarai :old:
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