Author Topic: Favourite Old Samurai Movies? (Read 9341 times)

Terrible Tim · « **on:** October 08, 2006, 03:49:39 AM »

What is everyones favourite Samurai movie? I personally like The seven Samurai and Yojimbo.

TT.

Driscoles · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2006, 08:22:35 AM »

Thats not my topic. I hope I dont hurt someones feelings when I say that I only know Seven Samurai, Ran and Last Samurai. I liked all but I liked 7 Samurai the most, so thats my favourite Samurai Movie !

Björn

LeadAsbestos · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2006, 09:47:22 AM »

Ran and Throne of Blood for me.

Prof.Witchheimer · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:00:17 AM »

like Drisoles, I must admit, I'm not really a samurai expert. I saw 7 Samurai many years ago and I liked it. Then i saw another good samurai film but i can't remember the title. That's all, sorry :oops:

matakishi · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2006, 11:27:46 AM »

I like Zatoichi, all of them are very good, there's 42, the newest one is an attempt to keep the series going and is a good place to start if you're interested.
http://www.zatoichi.co.uk/

Ambush at Blood Pass is a particular favourite of mine, this one really shows the similarity between chambara films and westerns and it features Yojimbo.

The babycart series is full of ninjas and blood so I watch it a lot

The series is based on the Lone Wolf and cub manga. The last film in the series is very entertaining and has Lone Wolf fighting from a tobogan as it rushes down an icy mountain.

Hidden Fortress is the Kurosawa film that Star Wars is based on (and has Matakishi in it)

Sony Chiba did a series of films featuring Jubei Yagyu who fights demons and suchlike, excellent fighting in these.

Red Lion is a Toshiro Mifune film that shows how the Daimyos oppressed the common people. It's very good.

Sword of Doom has just been reissued in a special edition. It features Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in a tale about a long running feud between two masters.

Samurai Trilogy is a set of films based on the life of Musashi myamoto, the man who wrote the Book of Five Rings. The three films star Toshiro Mifune of course.

There are many more but those are my starting recommendations.

Terrible Tim · « **Reply #5 on:** October 09, 2006, 12:17:41 AM »

Thanks for the info. I will keep an eye out for those movies. I agree that baby cart is a classic series and well worth watching.

TT.

Poliorketes · « **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:52:09 AM »

Zatoichi (the last of that name in german movie theatres) was a big disappointment and just another variation of the Yojimbo-theme. For me it's Kurosawa (my favourite director together with John Ford and Fritz Lang). 7 Samurai, Throne of Blood (Schloß im Spinnwebwald for german readers), Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanhuro, Ran, Rashomon, Kagemusha.

majorsmith · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:36:47 PM »

lone wolf and cub, azumi, zatoichi and shogun assasin for cheeseness

postal · « **Reply #8 on:** April 13, 2008, 04:08:07 PM »

the seven samurai for me I love that moive.

Plynkes · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2008, 08:03:28 PM »

Quote from: "matakishi"

Hidden Fortress is the Kurosawa film that Star Wars is based on (and has Matakishi in it)

In the subtitles on my DVD, they spell it Matashichi. But I guess it could be one of those things like the strange variations in names you see on Arabic road signs, where there is no official way to render it into the Latin alphabet, so you spell it how you like.

Heldrak · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2008, 08:11:53 PM »

Quote from: "matakishi"

Hidden Fortress is the Kurosawa film that Star Wars is based on (and has Matakishi in it).

While George Lucas has indeed claimed that Star Wars is based on Hidden Fortress (and flattered himself by the comparison), the only real similarity is a scene of two dunderheads arguing as they walk through a rocky, barren landscape...

Nice list Matakishi.

I also enjoyed the recent Samurai Fiction (although it is a rather modern hipster Samurai movie starring a Japanese pop star and produced by MTV Japan).

Still, nothing tops Seven Samurai! :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:

Lowtardog · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2008, 09:25:49 PM »

I have to say the Seven Samurai for a Japanese classic and the last Samurai for a good representation from hollywood. An outsider would bte Rising Sun awestern with Charles Bronson who has to escort a samurai on a death mission to retrieve a lost presentation sword.

@Matakishi, haven`t seen the Musashi films but read the books a long time ago, will have to keep an eye out for them. Are they deep and meaningful and full of philosophy like the books?

twrchtrwyth · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2008, 09:58:11 PM »

7 Samurai
Shogun Assasin
Yojimbo
Kagemusha
Ran

matakishi · « **Reply #13 on:** April 13, 2008, 10:00:23 PM »

Quote from: "Lowtardog"

Matakishi, haven`t seen the Musashi films but read the books a long time ago, will have to keep an eye out for them. Are they deep and meaningful and full of philosophy like the books?

What? no, are you mad? He killed people for a living and was very, very good at it. No matter what philosophical gloss he put on it in his writings his life revolved around slaughtering others.

The films are full of blood, other people's mostly until the end (oops! Spoiler) :

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Lowtardog · « **Reply #14 on:** April 13, 2008, 10:31:03 PM »

Quote from: "matakishi"

Quote from: "Lowtardog"
Matakishi, haven`t seen the Musashi films but read the books a long time ago, will have to keep an eye out for them. Are they deep and meaningful and full of philosophy like the books?

What? no, are you mad? He killed people for a living and was very, very good at it. No matter what philosophical gloss he put on it in his writings his life revolved around slaughtering others.

The films are full of blood, other people's mostly until the end (oops! Spoiler) ::

Ooh will definately have to have a butchers at that then.

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