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Two of Kurosawa's samurai movies were based on the works of William Shakespeare, Throne of Blood (Macbeth) and Ran (King Lear). A number of his films were remade in Italy and the United States as westerns, or as action films set in other contexts. [6] .
Nov 4, 2021 · Legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic Seven Samurai has seen many reworkings and homages in the nearly 70 years since its release. Most prominent is its direct American remake, John Sturges’s The Magnificent Seven (which was itself remade in 2016).
May 24, 2024 · Pre-war films, like Daisuke Ito’s samurai epics, were the norm. In collaboration with the Japanese government, the film industry began making propaganda pictures known as Bunka Eiga in the 1930s. But when World War II arrived, the film industry was forced to increase its production of war propaganda films.
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- 'Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril' (1972) The fourth Lone Wolf and Cub movie, 1972's Baby Cart in Peril, represents the series at its absolute peak.
- 'Throne of Blood' (1957) There are too many great Shakespeare film adaptations out there to count them all, but Throne of Blood is rightly held up reasonably often as one of the very best.
- 'Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival' (1970) Right before Zatoichi met The One-Armed Man, he also went to the fire festival, in the appropriately titled 21st film in the series, Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival.
- 'The Sword of Doom' (1966) The Sword of Doom is unapologetically dark, bloody, and oftentimes shocking. It follows an expert swordsman who doesn't seem to have much sense of morality, taking on various violent tasks, and seeing himself become more and more evil with every violent act he does.
Dec 30, 2022 · In Seven Samurai, the 1954 film that keeps Akira Kurosawa’s name forever burnished, there is a wonderful extended shot in which the ages come together. It’s so subtly magical that you hardly...
Apr 5, 2015 · The samurai film, and other forms of jidai-geki (period piece), is “singularly Japanese in that it draws upon the peculiarities of Japanese history and myth just as the Western [has drawn] upon those elements in America” (Nolley 232).
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Sep 7, 2015 · Made only six years after 1954’s The Seven Samurai, John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven is at the same time a classic American Western and a faithful remake of the Japanese original,...
