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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Here's the final sword fight of Orochi, a obscure 1925 samurai film by forgotten director Buntaro Futagawa featuring star Tsumasaburo Bando.
It story concern a unlucky samurai who fall from grace due to various misunderstandings and tries to save his reputation. It's ending makes it different than what we are used to.
It's interesting how it feels like they're trying to capture a wild animal. The whole village is there, scared to death of a single, desperate and crazy-acting man. The battle ends when he kills someone in the crowd. Viewed as a monster by everybody, it is actually the first time he kill someone and can't take it.
Japanese films of the 1920s are almost nonexistent these days due to earthquake, fire and other hazards which have destroyed much of Japan's silent legacy. Orochi is a very rare kind which survived in complete form to these days.
Though it is not exactly a masterpiece (but it is very enjoyable) it's historical importance and uniqueness status can't be overstated; it's a rare chance to enjoy a certain kind of cinema.
The voice you hear is a benshi, a traditional silent film narrator of Japan. This track was recorded for the Digital Meme's DVD release. Thanks to them, this film now can be viewed anywhere in the world.
This is amazing, I've never seen a Japanese film this old before.
これだけの殺陣シーン、かなりの時間を長回しの１カットで撮影している。すごい。
Wow this is actually good, love vintage films like this.
戦前のフィルムは、その大半が戦災で失われた中、今こうやって見られるのは奇跡ですね
There's an ongoing debate on the correct projection speed of early films, since they were usually shot at lower frame rates and then appear comically sped up when shown at 24 fps as became standard. I can't help but feel this is the case here too. If you set the video to a lower speed all the action is much more visually legible, impressive and fluent. Maybe closer to what it might have looked like in theatres back in the day. Also much closer to the look of early post-war chanbara that it inspired.
これがあの夢にまで見た偉大な「雄呂血」か・・あの偉大な「阪妻」か・・
素晴しい。生きていて良かった・・
I'm grateful for your sharing of this fabulous scene, thanks forever"
@Bretzel42 This is pretty amazing footage. I bet not too many people are aware of this movie, and the level of quality here. It frankly looks great as an action movie (action tragedy?) even to a modern eye... If someone were to show this at a movie festival, I bet it would cause quite a stir.
I realize it's a little bit of a touchy subject on the internet, but are the film rights public by now? Or does someone still hold the artistic rights to this?
Amazing energy and cutting edge techniques…
For honor gameplay looks good
Eisenstein used fast cutting before Potemkin and was probably influenced by French filmmaker Abel Gance on that matter.
Orochi, the film in the video above, was released a full month before Battleship Potemkin !
This reminds me so much of the video game Dynasty Warriors a the group swarms the lone fighter. This is awesome.
LMAO it's like watching a group of army ants teaming up on a large beetle.
there was rapid cutting in mid 20's japanese cinema? wow! I wonder if maybe the director influenced by French or Russian films of the time?
@Bretzel42 The term "cut" in film comes from how they would literally cut the film strip and tape it together in the sequence they wanted. Nowadays, editing is all done digitally, just like the filming. For most of movie history it was all mechanical. So yes, they had the technology to cut film back then ^_^
reminds me of that village fight from 13 assasins kinda
awesome
Amazing o_o
Never underestimate cardio
Actually there is a quite nice remake called "Daisatsujin Orochi AKA. The Betrayal. It`s from 1966 and has samurai film star Raizo Ichikawa in it`s title role. Check it out, the showdown is equally stunning with Raizo killing literally hundreds of opponents.
@CoryTheRaven Yea I know that, it's just the style ("rapid cutting" like saturnome said) that I find surprising.
is this the original cut ?
I wonder because how is it possible to have all theses fast-cuts at 5:00 ? I didn't know this kind of film editing was already in use in 1925...that's kinda crazy to me.. like the director was a precursor or something.
Sure! Foreign films were very popular, and there is many evidence of well known films from various countries shown in Japan.
1925?
Don't tell me you meant YEAR '1925'?!?!
WOW THAT'S FRIGGIN A CENTURY AGO and you have it?
He sliced up the whole tribe. Slash I say. Mow 'em down Billy, the best way for them to go. Yahoo
Another Zatoichi ???
might make a nice remake
have u got a link to watch the whole movie on ? i really want to see it lol
what does the narrator say??
@Bretzel42 Russian and French films were shown in Japan at this period, which have probably influenced some directors. There isn't many films using rapid cutting prior to 1925 though, so it's still impressive!
この時代のチャンバラ最後やられるの多くない？
i wish i knew what the benshi was saying tho.. any idea? lol
Sounds like some one is beating on a mat at 1:25.
jaja that asian dude put in some work! if he was the bad guy i give him props he had skills!!
Maurizio is better than Murray
悩み
身体がなんもないわ😊