Top 10 SAMURAI Movies Of All Tme

his was supose to be weak though like an aging tihing.... anyway no i was defending earlier just stuff i read about and leanred in school

animation wise... samurai champloo is great.
 
doubtful i like the ending though..... SW stuff is usually on 26 or so episode series and thats it. Cowboy Bebeop is pheonominal if you haven't seen it.
 
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1. The Lone Wolf and Cub series is my all time favorite. That's 6 films right there. And 3 seasons of TV (I find that one with out the other is incomplete).
2. Samurai Champloo is my favorite animated samurai joint.
The rest can be in no order, they rule together.
3. I really like the new Zatoichi.
4. Samurai Fiction.
5. Azumi 1 and 2.
6. VS. and Arigami (if they can be counted)
7. Any combination of Kurasawa and Mifune

There are still many to see. I'm interested in Twilight Samurai and Samurai Trilogy.
Oh, and Blade...just kidding.
 
There are a lot of them that are out there that are total crap...the funny thing is, I end up picking them up just in the hope to find another gem.

Another oddity about the samurai flick is that I ended up liking Westerns better.

I DON"T CARE WHAT ANY ONE THINKS, I LIKED "GHOST DOG".
 
The Machinist said:
Read up on the back story behind Kagemusha.

When you learn about where Kurosawa was in his life and career that movie takes on whole new levels.

Brilliant.
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I know both Kurosawa and the Japanese history around the time pretty well... but I don't see how the 2 correlate. care to explain?
 
Kurosawa was just coming out of a disparaging point in his life. For more than a decade he had trouble making his films; even going to Russia because he was able to find financing there. He attempted suicide in 1970.

Kagemusha was sort of cathartic for him in this respect. His triumphant return to Japanese filmmaking.

When I watch Kagemusha i feel that Kurosawa invested some of himself into the character of the thief-doppelganger.
 
The Machinist said:
When I watch Kagemusha i feel that Kurosawa invested some of himself into the character of the thief-doppelganger.
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funny I feel that way about "Ran" more.... I heard that the father character in Ran was written for Mifune but i guess things didn't work out
 
Ran was the very next movie after Kagemusha so he was probably still working out his personal life in the characters.

But i agree i can definately see that correlation. I mean if you hit a level of depression that deep in your life i imagine it will find its way into the rest of the work you do.

It's just Kagemusha was made first so i went with that one.
 
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