I don't know what it is, but I have been on a samurai movie kick. Like the last 5 movies I've watched were samurai or samaurai-ish. I have been loving every second of it. Most of these movies are by the Japanese acclaimed director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, Akira Kurosawa. Even one of his films George Lucas ripped off his main story of his film The Hidden Fortress, which is about a queen that has to get across enemy territory by a strong Samurai and his two bumbling idiot slaves, to be turned into the little known movie Star Wars, episode IV. He has made so many films and I heard they mentioned him in Entourage (though, I have to admit, I have only watched a few episodes of). They all feel uncommon in culture and universal in message. So there are movies by Kurosawa, but then I also watched on youtube Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, which was a 1991 gory B action film that is great to play on silent during class to freak out the people behind you kind of movie. My friend sent me a link for the clip from it that was called "Fight scene from Riki-Oh - Oscar (most ridiculously AWESOME fight ever)", so I decided to take a minute and 35 seconds out of my life and it has been changed forever. Keep the blood, swords, and honor coming!
My Samurai/Samurai-ish movie person picks: The Hidden Fortress, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Old Boy, Ran, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo.
The Riki-Oh clip mentioned above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMKN1tYknE
(from Yojimbo)
-Chakrah
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