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Re: Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman

Posted by Pam (A) on August 1, 2004 at 22:08:49

In Reply to: Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman posted by tunenut on August 1, 2004 at 20:01:54:

Just ordered the Kitano Takeshi remake so it should land next week along iwth Hero (Jet Li) and Eiga no Tokubetsu-hen (Tales of the unusual). He also did another samurai flick called Gohatto (Taboo) that was pretty interesting.

Basically, I like all of the Zatoichi films (got about a dozen of them so far) and the Lone Wolf and Cub series, though I tend to like things with a bit of a spooky, supernatural element or things that take place in an earlier time period... particularly the Heian era, so two of my favorite films are Onmyoji and Onmyoji II (the second is only available on R2 disk), which are based around the life of the legendary Abe no Seimei (he was a famous scholar and court magician who lived around 921-1005 and worked in the government's ministry of divination... legend says that his mother was a kitsune, or fox spirit).

If you like Kurosawa films you might also like Samurai Fiction... modern comedy shot on B&W in the classic old samurai movie style. Very well made.

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