Samurai Movies - please recommend your fav

[Tturtle]

Originally Posted by sasuke91

the best samurai movie EVER !
would be

The Last Samurai

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You're joking, right?

[sasuke91]

lol no way

what is better ?

[Joly]

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

'Seven Samurai' is by far the best that I've seen.

'Last Samurai' may be the worst...

*snorts* Tom Cruise...:P It's an ok movie...the soundtrack is amazing and I liked seeing Ken Watanabe and Hiroyuki Sanada together, but it was too inaccurate for me to really love. If you've ever seen Dances with Wolves it's the same story, substituting American Indians for Japanese samurai.>>

What's better? Take your pick from everything else mentioned on this thread.^^ Though Zatoichi has been mentioned a lot and I haven't seen any of those yet.

[sasuke91]

actualy the only other samurai movies ive seen is
Azumi 1,2 they were good but i like the last samurai better

[Amnell]

Hey, Last Samurai was a lot of fun, don't be dissin'!

Like most period pieces, it was based on events that did actually happen, but wasn't meant to be representative of what really happened. Jeez, movies like that are boring as hell (Gods and Generals, for instance). The Patriot is the same exact thing, really: the main bad guy was based on an actual person, but wasn't that person; the South Virginia militia did exist and was used, but there never was a Col. Martin of the Continental Army-blah-blah. It was still a good movie!

Lol, when I first saw a commercial for Last Samurai, I was with my dad in the movie theatre and we both turned to each other at the end and said, "There's no [fuckin'] way Tom Cruise is the last samurai, puh-leez!" Then later we went and saw it (in theatres) and walked away looking like Fuko from Clannad when she sees a starfish XD . Fortunately, no one near us had a juice box, or that might have been bad o_o; .

Sadly, LS is the only samurai movie I've seen, and I can't seem to find any way to watch the older ones online T_T . Anyone know a place?

[Joly]

Well, if LS is all you've seen then no wonder...you need to get some Kurosawa! As for watching films online, I don't know...I have Netflix, that's where I get my samurai-flick fix. Ack, sorry for the alliteration.^^ You might check out your library...I know mine has a great stock of older foreign films, that includes a lot of good samurai stuff.

[TalnSG]

I became a fan of Kurosawa the first time I saw one of his movies, and I was so young I was having trouble reading the subtitles! Tom Cruise in LS was the disney version of the story and I found it repugnant..... same as I did Dancing with Wolves. Ironically, LS was more sickening even DW was much closer to home.

Anyway..... Check out Rashomon if you haven't already seen that one. It seems to bring out a bit more soul than some of Kurosawa's other works with casts of thousands.

You shouldn't have any trouble finding them on VHS, if you still have something that will play them.

[KitsuneFr]

Hi!
You may try "Sword of Doom" or "Kill" from Kihachi Okamoto, both with Tatsuya Nakadai. From the 60s, very good stuff (you may have already seen Nakadai in some Kurosawa's, Gosha's and even in one or two episodes of Zatoichi!). You may try Yôjimbo and its sequel by Kurosawa, and don't forget Mifune had played Yôjimbo twice more in a Zatoichi and in a Inagaki's movie. Concerning Inagaki's movies with Toshirô Mifune, you could see all of them especially "Samurai's banner" (adapted from the Inoue's novel "the sword of the Takeda") and the trilogy about Musashi (written by Eiji Yoshikawa).
All good 60s / 70s stuff!

Nice watching!

[Aota]

Yojimbo was pretty sweet actually. I enjoyed Zatoichi too. And a movie called Death Trance, starring Tak Sakaguchi.

[Kyousuke]

Shogun Asassin is a good movie. if you like kill bill you'll like this one.