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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 22, 2012 1:22:19 GMT -5
I love Kurosawa's Yojimbo which was remade as A Fistful of Dollars and that gives me an idea.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 23, 2012 0:20:49 GMT -5
Just watched the sequel. Sanjuro is one bad man, but damn, he's good. And strong.
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Edit: Remade as For a Few Dollars More.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 23, 2012 23:31:15 GMT -5
LOB have you seen Ichi the Killer?
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 24, 2012 3:39:01 GMT -5
Yessiree, my fifth movie this month.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 24, 2012 23:51:02 GMT -5
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades.
So this is volume 3 of 6. I'm skipping past 2 for a few days.
In this movie, Itto and Daigoro enter Hell, and immediately after a lesson on the meaning of "the Way of the Warrior" is shared with an honorable but fallen samurai.
And a mild SPOILER, here is Itto and Daigoro entering Hell for the first time.
Drinking Sho Chiku Bai's Nigori sake at room temperature. It is silky, mildly to medium in sweetness, hazy kinda like me, and a really great drink. I dig this stuff! Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 25, 2012 2:22:10 GMT -5
Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Ookami) Volume Four: Baby Cart in Peril, Oya no Kokoro Ko no Kokoro (Heart of the Parent, Heart of the Child)
What happens when a Wolf meets an Old Lion? Part One.
Shhhh! Yella boobies within the clip!
Drinking Kracken Black Rum and Natural Mist Soda. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 25, 2012 3:31:26 GMT -5
I'm starting to feel cocky.
Kinda like The Miracle Violence Connection taking on Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsurata.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 25, 2012 10:46:19 GMT -5
That match was awesome.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 26, 2012 14:34:30 GMT -5
That match was awesome. Agreed.
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 5, Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
I've read the whole story, cover to cover, on three occasions. This is my second viewing of the complete film series, and I have seen the condensed down to a single movie version, Shogun Assassin, a couple of times. I just have gotten how pro-middle class and common person the themes are in these stories, and how often times, the ruling elites and the samurai are the ones who fail as humans and in their occupations' codes of ethics.
In a room full of ronin thugs and a few common people, the only person who recognized a true samurai, was a prostitute. And she knew he was "The Lone Wolf with Cub". At the same time, the infant daughter of a clan head is as twisted and likely evil like her parents.
Women are also portrayed as having a "warrior's heart" in a few of the stories.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 28, 2012 13:07:45 GMT -5
I've watched the first half of Seven Samurai, gonna finish it tonight. The crown jewel of Japanese cinema.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 29, 2012 3:20:41 GMT -5
Three hours and twenty-six minutes including an intermission. Criterion Collection's release of Seven Samurai. Possibly, very possibly, Akira Kurosawa's greatest film. My second viewing.
This movie has now entered my favorite films, ever, alongside Irv Kirchner's The Empire Strikes Back, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part I and II, The Shining, Casablanca, The Big Leibowski (and I gots me an interactive WYH idea gentlemen!), Dr. Strangelove, The Forbidden Zone, No Country for Old Men, A Clockwork Orange, Night of the Living Dead, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, John Carpenter's The Thing, Reservoir Dogs (I still think Quentin is a douchey hack), The Devil's Rejects, Halloween, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Everybody should watch this movie. It is art. Kurosawa was Kubrick's Eastern counterpart.
Between yesterday and tonight I drank a bottle and a half of two varieties of Momokawa Junmai Ginjo Sake. Still drinking the "Diamond" version. Preferred the last brand of sake, but good stuff chilled. Cheers! LOB-24
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 29, 2012 3:32:45 GMT -5
One last thing, differing from Lone Wolf and Cub, samurai are more noble in this movie than the common "herd".
And this is a movie where the caste system is brushed upon on both ends, peasant and samurai. Watch it.
A sake cheers to ya all!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 29, 2012 15:51:14 GMT -5
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 2, Baby Cart at the River Styx. Daigoro shows how dangerous a cub with fangs can be.
This series and especially the manga series is the best explanation you can find, written and unwritten (illustrated) of what the samurai way really meant at its core. This movie introduces the Whistling Wintry Wind throat slice (comic book known as the Flute of the Fallen Tiger, which is one of my favorite stories from the series).
This movie specifically and admittedly was heavily borrowed by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill, Vol. 1. That one scene and the scene in Pulp Fiction that rips off Hitchcock's Psycho are heavy on why I don't like Tarrantino as well as his Q&A after the premier of Pulp Fiction here in Austin and my brief conversation with the man at the after-party. The man is a douche and a tool.
The Dotanuko Sword. The fabled "Horse Slicing" or "Horse Slaying" blade.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 30, 2012 17:04:04 GMT -5
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 6, White Heaven in Hell
What happens when a Wolf meets an Old Lion? Part Two.
These six movies are great, but the manga is incredible.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 31, 2012 20:01:18 GMT -5
The damned college beat me! LOB what are you thinking of for next month?
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