真田幸村の謀略
Directed by:
Robert HoustonScreenplay:
David WeismanCast:
若山富三郎, Kayo Matsuo, 大木実, Akiji Kobayashi, Lamont Johnson, Lennie Weinrib, Sam Weisman, Robert Houston, Sandra Bernhard, David Weisman, Marshall EfronPlots(1)
Unquestionably the most popular samurai film in the West since the days of Akira Kurosawa, this chanbara classic was lifted from a hugely popular comic book saga and, still wet, transferred glistening to the screen. After being framed for disloyalty to his clan lord, disgraced ronin Itto Ogami (with three-year-old son Daigoro in tow) travels medieval Japan as the most skilled samurai-for-hire bar none. But as the treachery and obstacles in his latest mission quickly pile up, Ogami is forced to handle it the only way he knows how. (Eureka Entertainment)
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One little, two little, three hundred little ninjas... An absolute cult movie in all imaginable ways. The mysterious Lone Wolf and his son on a journey to find peace of mind (or to damnation; take your pick) leaving along their way by around a hundred dead bodies, gallons and gallons of blood and lots of severed body parts. This is a montage of the first few episodes of a loose series about their journey together. Even so, it contains emotional depth that you would never expect from such a fleeting glimpse. The only, unfortunately serious, objection I have is that in places it is almost too obvious that this is “just" a montage. One of the movies without which Tarantino would have had nothing to borrow from for Kill Bill.
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