Showing posts with label samurai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label samurai. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 December 2024

The lonely road to success?

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Le Samourai (The Samurai; 1967) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville The film title card starts with a fabricated quote from Bushido, the moral co...
Monday, 18 November 2024

The spirit of the black cat...

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Kuroneko (@ Black Cat, Japanese; 1968) Director:  Kaneto Shindō Thinking about it, primitive societies of yesteryears were run mainly by fem...
Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Part of the company you keep!

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Onibaba (Japanese, 1964) Director: Kaneto Shindō Many stories tell us to be wary of the company we keep with. Like how Amma frequently remin...
Sunday, 2 July 2023

In war, everyone loses!

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Ugetsu Monogatari (Japanese,   雨月物語 ,  Rain-Moon Tales; 1953) Director : Kenji Mizoguchi Geopolitical strategists will want us to believe th...
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Saturday, 24 June 2023

Without mercy, man is like a beast

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Sansho the Bailiff ( 山椒大夫, Japanese; 1954) Director: Kenji Mizoguchi At the outset, we are told the story occurred in "an era when mank...
Monday, 18 August 2014

The violent past

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Throne of Blood ( 蜘蛛巣城   Kumonosu-jô,  Spider's Web Castle, 1957; Japanese) Written and Direction by: Akira Kurusawa Since I have n...
Monday, 9 June 2014

Best swords are kept in their sheaths

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Sanjûrô (椿三十郎, Japanese; 1962) Director: Akira Kurosawa This film is actually a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 release of  Yojimbo . In f...