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In Reply to: Musa the Warrior posted by TimTaylor on September 25, 2004 at 00:14:27:
Musa the Warrior and The Emperor and the Assassin are the tops on my epic Asian historical film list.Then there are the epic legendary tales (like Ever-After is sort of a Cinderella story, or Excallibur as a retelling of King Arthur) like Hero and Crowching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Those 4 are probably my favorite films. Particularly those dealing with ancient Chinese legendary history (this was a collection of legends about the 7 kingdoms / warring states period 777-221BC, the Xia-2100BC, Shang-1523BC. and Zhou-1027BC dynasties, that were transmitted orally for millennia before anyone wrote them down. They were all thought to be fables until arcaeologists recently dug them up)
I'd love to see an epic done on Fu-Hao (legendary warrior general of the Shang dynasty who lived about 1250BC Her tomb was found in 1976), or a historical piece in the time of Kung-Fu-Tse (which the Brits. transliterated into Confucious" or Lao-Tzu. Korean films about the ancient kingdoms of Silla, Paekche, Kaya, and Koguryo. or films about Japan between the Jomon and Heian eras.
Moon over Tao is a fun Japanese film... takes place in the Tokagawa era. I don't know how to describe it as it mixes drama, comedy, samurai chanbara, monsters, magic and aliens all into one film, that manages to turn out to be a quite entertaining, feel-good film (watched it about a dozen times now since it makes a good mindless "decompression" flick to watch between other films when you want to switch gears)
Samurai Fiction is a good modern samurai film done in the classic old Kurosawa style. Kitano (Beat) Takeshi's version of Zatoichi is really good too (I noticed that he couldn't keep from inserting bits of his bizarre humor into it) He was also good in Gohatto (Taboo).
Onmyoji and Onmyoji II are atmospheric and visually lush films about Abe no Seimei (he was Japan's most famous magician who worked in the government's office of divination and lived from 921 to 1005AD). I'm a sucker for Heian era films, especially those with a touch of historical legend and a hint of ghost story and magic. (the second dvd will be released in R1 on 11/2)
KwAIDAN, a set of 4 classic Japanese ghost stories originally filmed in the 60's. A Chinese Ghost Story 1,2 & 3 - fun romantic ghost stories.
Anime: Samurai-X Trust and Betrayal (the directors cut combines these two disks but mats them for wide screen). Tragic but good tale about an assassin during the revolution.
Hakkendon: legend of the Dog Warrors. The animation on this is quite variable (parts are great and some episodes look like the Janitorial staff drew them), but the story is good and is based on an 18th century novel that was 106 volumes long and took 28 years to write.
http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~opaku/shogun/index.html
Naturally, it had to be shortened for the anime (which is 3 disks long) and it is full of symbolism so this site may help with that better than the one about the novel http://members.tripod.com/~muromachi1333/main.htmlAnyway, I'd appreciate any recommendations on anything like those mentioned. For that matter, I also like B films like Zeiram, Haunted Lantern, Kunoichi, Mr Vampire, and even those silly kung fu films.
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- Re: Musa the Warrior - Pam 03:24:20 09/26/04 (1)
- Re: Musa the Warrior - TimTaylor 10:28:17 09/26/04 (0)
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