From a Japanese point of view, the armor and costumes in Ghost of Tsushima feel strange because they are from the Warring States period, about 300 years later! The people's names are also quite strange. But the Japanese have always been used to the unnatural portrayal of the Japanese in American movies and games, and they accept it with a laugh!
@@koukidenhikaitu4990 I noticed that too. I think metatron even went over it, saying that this period actually inspired the development of weapons like the katana over bigger, bulkier weapons
@arakoumoku what are the strange things about names? i am really curious about that.. are they too modern for the period they are referring to? or other things.. i already hear that costumes doesn’t really match that period already but names are first for me so i am curious ;)
I haven't seen it but my heart def sank when you said that you wished Kai had taken part in the fighting because she's one of my favorite Sengoku Musou characters so I was def hoping for her to do some onna-bugeisha-ing in this movie.
I love your channel. It's blessing for a history buff like me and to understand Japanese history better than I could have done otherwise. lThat being said, I ike the fact that the film tried to be as historically accurate as possible. A lot of films set in a historical period often try to make things more dramatic in a way that hurts the history aspect, something I have often found myself disliking. I love Dunkirk, not from a story perspective (because it's just the rescue of Allied troops from Dunkirk and there isn't much of a climax) or because of the characters(none actually stick out) but how that film managed to make me feel the fear among soldiers at that point and showing the immense stakes.
A couple of the best Samurai films ive seen are The Twilight Samurai and The Hidden Blade....they are excellent. Something interesting ive noticed is that at the end of Twilight Samurai Seibei's daughter talks about what happens to her father a few years later....and it lines up with Hiroyuki Sanadas character in The Last Samurai at which takes place a few years after Twilights time period. Someone had to of done this knowingly
Goody, now I don't have to comment to recommend them, but to thank you for doing so! What did you think of the third one of this "trilogy" titled "Love and Honor"?
@@arturius9715 actually it took place 10 years later, with the rebellion of Saigo Takamori in Satsuma. The Bosshin war is the one that happened in 1868
love this film - mostly because I’m a big fan of Nomura Mansai. With his kyogen background he is pretty good with historical movies characters. Like you I thought they would have put more emphasis on the sister fighting.
YES. The lack of scale in newer productions is really something I've been noticing with some newer films. Especially the Taiga Dramas. I still love this film. Great review as always!
In this year`s Taiga Drama about Mitsuhide, the battle of Okehazama was brutal to watch...If you did not know, one would have thought it was about 10 Oda guys versus 12 Imagawa samurai.. That was it.. It was really sad to watch.
Many of your interpretations of this film I agree with. One thing you did not add is the Japanese view of humor. Specifically a scene when the castle is flooded and everyone is muddy. Standing at the entrance of the living area of the castle, the castle is clean and they are muddy. Do not want to spoil it too much for people that have not watched this movie.
This film was made as a comedy (I don't know about the original novel which the film was based upon), and should not be watched seriously like a Kurosawa film. The Japanese title is"Nobou No Shiro" (のぼうの城）and points at the lord of the castle and the protagonist of this film "Narita Nagachika" who's nickname was "Nobou", taken from the Japanese word "Deku-no-bou", meaning useless person. Although he is being called "useless" by the common folk, he is loved by them at the same time because of his friendly character. The actor who played this role is a famous "Kyogen" actor (Traditional Japanese comic theatre developed in the 14th century). The climax of his acting is when he performs a traditional "farmer's dance" on the boat (but gets shot). The number of side characters, especially from the defending side may be confusing, but maybe the purpose was to show that Nagachika was loved by everybody around him, whatever their personality. One note from the production side was, that the original script was written for a 240-minute film, which the director found too long and the budget too high, and had it shortened to a 145-minute film.
love the video never heard of the film and the review you made about it was nice, its another samurai film i have to add to my buy list now ^.^ continue the amazing work :D been making a list to buy my very first samurai films from what you have been reviewing :3
Great review! I'll be sure to check this one out. I agree, samurai movies were so much better during the 50s to 80s. I think a good reason for that is because that was when the greats like Kurosawa, Kobayashi and Mizoguchi etc. were still around. You just can't replace talented directors. P.S. I'm glad I found your channel, I feel like it was made for me lol.
Just watched it so I could come back to this review, I had a hard time at first, didn't really like Nagachika but after some character development I was genuinely surprised and rooted for him, even liking and respecting the damn guy! The movie had goody sides, but it didn't take away from the enjoyment, I really did laugh at the parts that were humorous and that boat scene was really endearing. Overall a fun movie once you sink your teeth in it, thanks for the video/recommendation!
A big part of why the western army lost to Tokugawa was that many Toyotomi loyalist daimyos had little respect for Ishida Mitsunari for reasons you stated and were reluctant (and in some cases downright refused) to obey his commands. This resulted in the western army at Sekigahara becoming very disorganized and uncoordinated comparing to the eastern army which united under Tokugawa Ieyasu's banner. Sometimes I wonder, had Mitsunari did better here and gained more respect and support among other daimyos, would he have had a different fate at the battle of Sekigahara?
In this movie (which is an adaptation from an old, popular Japanese novel), the story that Mitsunari was in charge and insistent on flood sieging Oshi castle was made-up. It was probably Hideyoshi who ordered the strategy, and actually Asano Nagamasa who executed it. Mitsunari was just inspecting the process, which was most of his jobs. Mitsunari also wasn't the commander of the Western army, and while he was one of the founders, his role was rather insignificant (although he definitely fought valiantly). Instead, The main commander was Mori Terumoto, and second-in-command was Ukita Hideie. Since Mori Terumoto was unable to arrive at his supposed spot, which was taken by Kobayakawa Hideaki, the actual commander when the battle broke out was Ukita Hideie. So, overall (this film included), Mitsunari had been described as a pretty terrible person just because the victorious side was Ieyasu. Mitsunari also wasn't unpopular, but just that his brother-in-law Fukuhara Nagataka (and a lot of army inspectors during the Japanese invasion of Korea) played favouritism when they reported back to Hideyoshi, causing certain daimyos like Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa to be severely punished. When the 7 samurais attacked Mitsunari, they were also attacking Maeda Geni and Mashita Nagamori, not just Mitsunari.
Yes... The really big divide was in the Toyotomoi retainer ranks. The ones who were considered the military side (Kato Kiyamasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori etc) all were big Ieyasu supporters. It should be noted that Nene (Kitamandokoro) - Hideyoshi`s wife suggested to all of them that supporting Ieyasu was not a betrayal of Hideyoshi.
Great review of the movie, but there is one thing that you did not bring up in this movie. You missed the humor that was put in it? From my experience in the Japanese culture and in filmmaking. I make this movie out as a historical comedy. You actually see it in the beginning of the movie when the characters are introduced. The scene when the farmers are in the rice patty planting. I could name a few other scenes that were actually humorous, but I would be spoiling too much of the movie
"The Twilight Samurai" is a damn good modern samurai movie. It's not a big action movie or one that's highly stylized. It's a very realistic take on a samurai in the 1700's, showing the cultural and moral decay that happened to the samurai, a military social class that had been at peace for a century. That final duel is something that sticks with me, the tension that builds up beforehand is almost too much to take.
"Drum up some internal conflict among the Oshi defenders." Yeah, sure, I bet that was what the writers of "Enemy At The Gates" were thinking of with that ridiculous love triangle in the movie.
I've noticed that the majority of recent Japanese films lack either choosing one side or another (lack of a clear good and bad guy, is an example so as not to hurt people's feelings), (over) emphasis on some sort of meta, or, like this film, lacking a good, satisfying climax.
@ irrelevant? Having a clear protagonist and antagonist is one of the key features of 95% of the films, books, plays, etc., out there. If you don't have a clear good guy and bad guy, whatever their motivations are, you can confuse the audience.
Oh I remember this. 🤔 my ex is from Takamatsu, and I read about Hideyoshi's flooding Tactic there from when I we went to visit Takamatsu castle. 🤔 But the flooding event at the Floating Castle years later would tirn out to be the more fanous story
I haven't seen this one. I'll have to check it out one day. The last 2 modern samurai movies I saw were Hara-Kiri (it's a remake iirc) & 13 Assassins and I enjoyed them both. Thanks for the heads up on this movie.
13 assassins was an amazing samurai movie. Some of the best sword fight in awhile, imo. Also, I know it’s about Korean general Yi Soon Shin, but the movie Admiral Roaring Currents was an awesome movie (arguable not that accurate in how the naval battle takes place.) it covers some of the Injin war. You don’t get many movies of samurai in naval combat
It's very good! Same director also made a remake of Seppuku which was surprisingly great, and I went in very biased since the original is such a masterpiece. But it's a genuinely good movie.
I hope you'll do the Sekigahara movie when you get there in history :D At least they did a better job showing Yoshitsugu's illness (which was also kinda downplayed in Sanada Maru, probably because they didn't want to subject the actor to spending hours having SFX makeup applied every day).
Too much Kurosawa man, I love his movies a lot but other directors were doing better and more daring stuff than him even in his prime. Kurosawa's worship has hurted Japanese filmmaking for samurai films and the perception of them. Kurosawa was very conservative with the camera in his last years and Samurai films went into that route following the master when in fact in the 60s samurai films had fast cuts for the action, handheld camera scenes, pans, dutch angles, very innovative camera movement, overhead shots and many more things. See for instance the case of After the Rain from 1999 and Dojo Yaburi from 1964, both based in the same novel but the older film has much better pacing, editing and camera work, it's also more fun to watch and the director of After The Rain was AD for Kurosawa in his last movies. What Miike did with 13 Assassins was to bring back what Eichi Kudo did with the revolution trilogy in the 60s all in one movie and the filmmaking felt modern for many folks. I read an interview with Daisaku Kimura after he filmed Falling Camellia in 2018 talking about his movie and the way he wanted to film the action scenes similar the how he filmed Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo for Kurosawa, that film is gorgeous btw but again everyhing that was done by other directors is shit for this people. I actually prefer Shura, Humanity And Paper Ballons, Sword Of Doom, Twilight Samurai, Harakiri, Onibaba, Sansho The Bailiff and Ansatsu over a lot of Kurosawa jidaigeki films.
@@TheShogunate the book is where it's at. Mini series is entertaining but the novel is great. Grab the audiobook and fall asleep to it. Might take a month as its 52 odd hours, but so much better a product.
are there more movies like this? i mean historical drama, real people real events that sort of thing? or at least fictional but close? i mean don't get me wrong the kurosawa style of films are great, but im a bit cowboy-western-samurai-ed out now. kinda want something more on the grander scale of things.
The movie features the Battle of Sekigahara as well as the lead-up to the inevitable battle. The only thing is that Mitsunari is portrayed like a hero while Ieyasu is a scheming dick
i've been going down the rabbit hole of Samurai movies & history since we're getting closer to the release of Ghost Of Tsushima, in case anyone else wants too watch the older black & white samurai movies I suggest subscribing to the Criterionchannel (App & Website) their they have a variety of black & white foreign films. If you're a first time subscriber you get a 14 day free trial and you can cancel at anytime and still have access until the 14 days is over.
Lack of scale is one of the biggest problems with movies these days. The only one that I can think of that did it right is "The King" on Netflix. Kurosawa was a master at it and every director should study him.
I watched this and enjoyed it a bit over the top but a really good movie totally felt for the defenders - I didnt know any history of it but it was good stuff
Actualy it is not a marsh..it is a castle surounded by rice fields..Which is a muddy terrain and is very hard to step into. Even buffalo gets hard to work on muddy ricefields. Foot soldiers is no an option..
By law: If it contains less than two samurai per full length feature film, it is not a true samurai movie, but only a samurai themed movie. This is the law of the land brought to you by its messenger Rex Remedy.
Modern Japanese movie industry has become derivative. New directors are influenced by anime, tokusatsu or tv show style of directing. It also doesn't help that talented people would rather make an anime movie because it is much cheaper to produce than a live action movie. It's really weird to see how Japan's live action movie industry is slowly declining. Granted we do see some gems like Floating Castle but it still hasn't reached the level of a Kurosawa film.
I wouldnt mind seeing films about the neolithic people settling the Oi river valley. They both are the first Japanese, but they are also not Japanese because that is who their descendants are going to become.
Oh please, no more warrior women. Can't really see the appeal there anymore. I once saw a samurai movie where they in fact had a group of women riding into battle and they depicted it completely realistic, that's what i love about the Japanese, because they were all completely massacred without achieving anything.
On the small scale of Taiga drama these days, look at the following video from 2:30, this is this year`s taiga drama about Mitsuhide.. The battle here is Okehazama... While it was not a huge battle this makes it out to be small scrum with about 40 guys in total... Also pathetic is they show the heavy rain as Oda gets into position but the battle itself seems like an area where than has been no rain for 6 months as everything kicks up dust (instead of being mud).. Rather lame. th-cam.com/video/Xb7E_6BxdBA/w-d-xo.html
King of Zipangu from 1992 was never and will probably never be equaled as far as Nobunaga's history is concerned. What new series lack is a great script and historical authenticity.
Takashi Miike's Haragiri is a good modern day samurai film that departs from the formula and follows a poor samurai family trying to survive during the waning years of the samurai class.
Akira Kurasawa had murdered so much horses for his movies. Worst of all he had probably never butchered and cooked horses he killed. Such a waste of fine horses and their meat.
Studying Japanese military history has ALWAYS been a fascination to me, and I just discovered your channel so I’m insanely excited to binge watch
Can't wait to hear your take on Ghost of Tsushima
Dude I was gonna say that also
From a Japanese point of view, the armor and costumes in Ghost of Tsushima feel strange because they are from the Warring States period, about 300 years later! The people's names are also quite strange.
But the Japanese have always been used to the unnatural portrayal of the Japanese in American movies and games, and they accept it with a laugh!
@@koukidenhikaitu4990 I noticed that too. I think metatron even went over it, saying that this period actually inspired the development of weapons like the katana over bigger, bulkier weapons
I'm literally here because of that game 😅😅 no shame in my game all I need is a lil inspiration to look up the real shit !!
@arakoumoku what are the strange things about names? i am really curious about that.. are they too modern for the period they are referring to? or other things.. i already hear that costumes doesn’t really match that period already but names are first for me so i am curious ;)
Great review as always, glad to see your channel is growing
I haven't seen it but my heart def sank when you said that you wished Kai had taken part in the fighting because she's one of my favorite Sengoku Musou characters so I was def hoping for her to do some onna-bugeisha-ing in this movie.
Really love all the review about the movies so far. Keep up the good work!
I love your channel. It's blessing for a history buff like me and to understand Japanese history better than I could have done otherwise.
lThat being said, I ike the fact that the film tried to be as historically accurate as possible. A lot of films set in a historical period often try to make things more dramatic in a way that hurts the history aspect, something I have often found myself disliking. I love Dunkirk, not from a story perspective (because it's just the rescue of Allied troops from Dunkirk and there isn't much of a climax) or because of the characters(none actually stick out) but how that film managed to make me feel the fear among soldiers at that point and showing the immense stakes.
A couple of the best Samurai films ive seen are The Twilight Samurai and The Hidden Blade....they are excellent.
Something interesting ive noticed is that at the end of Twilight Samurai Seibei's daughter talks about what happens to her father a few years later....and it lines up with Hiroyuki Sanadas character in The Last Samurai at which takes place a few years after Twilights time period.
Someone had to of done this knowingly
Those two movies are the ones that got me really into the samurai aswell.
@Huabin Situ Last Samurai took place three years after
Goody, now I don't have to comment to recommend them, but to thank you for doing so! What did you think of the third one of this "trilogy" titled "Love and Honor"?
@@stevefrench7036 ohh I actually didn't know about..definitely checking it out..thanks mate d(^_^)d
@@arturius9715 actually it took place 10 years later, with the rebellion of Saigo Takamori in Satsuma. The Bosshin war is the one that happened in 1868
This filming is amazing! watched it years ago. Glad you could spread this movie to the rest of the world!
Where can you watch this movie?
yeah man please tell us :)
@@romano4736 Ahem... uh... I watched it on a plane. I guess for other they could... go full 'Yarrrrr' and dl it somewhere.
Man, I love your reviews. They're informative, entertaining and very professional! I give them 4 out of 4 stars!
Love your channel vut come on..
That dig at Dunkirk..😂 oh man;that was brutal,i love that movie
love this film - mostly because I’m a big fan of Nomura Mansai. With his kyogen background he is pretty good with historical movies characters. Like you I thought they would have put more emphasis on the sister fighting.
YES. The lack of scale in newer productions is really something I've been noticing with some newer films. Especially the Taiga Dramas. I still love this film. Great review as always!
In this year`s Taiga Drama about Mitsuhide, the battle of Okehazama was brutal to watch...If you did not know, one would have thought it was about 10 Oda guys versus 12 Imagawa samurai.. That was it.. It was really sad to watch.
Many of your interpretations of this film I agree with. One thing you did not add is the Japanese view of humor. Specifically a scene when the castle is flooded and everyone is muddy. Standing at the entrance of the living area of the castle, the castle is clean and they are muddy. Do not want to spoil it too much for people that have not watched this movie.
This film was made as a comedy (I don't know about the original novel which the film was based upon), and should not be watched seriously like a Kurosawa film.
The Japanese title is"Nobou No Shiro" (のぼうの城）and points at the lord of the castle and the protagonist of this film "Narita Nagachika" who's nickname was "Nobou", taken from the Japanese word "Deku-no-bou", meaning useless person. Although he is being called "useless" by the common folk, he is loved by them at the same time because of his friendly character. The actor who played this role is a famous "Kyogen" actor (Traditional Japanese comic theatre developed in the 14th century). The climax of his acting is when he performs a traditional "farmer's dance" on the boat (but gets shot). The number of side characters, especially from the defending side may be confusing, but maybe the purpose was to show that Nagachika was loved by everybody around him, whatever their personality.
One note from the production side was, that the original script was written for a 240-minute film, which the director found too long and the budget too high, and had it shortened to a 145-minute film.
Kaihime is played by Naomie Nomura in the film but gets portrayed in videogames so well.
love the video never heard of the film and the review you made about it was nice, its another samurai film i have to add to my buy list now ^.^ continue the amazing work :D
been making a list to buy my very first samurai films from what you have been reviewing :3
Great review! I'll be sure to check this one out.
I agree, samurai movies were so much better during the 50s to 80s. I think a good reason for that is because that was when the greats like Kurosawa, Kobayashi and Mizoguchi etc. were still around. You just can't replace talented directors.
P.S. I'm glad I found your channel, I feel like it was made for me lol.
Just watched it so I could come back to this review, I had a hard time at first, didn't really like Nagachika but after some character development I was genuinely surprised and rooted for him, even liking and respecting the damn guy!
The movie had goody sides, but it didn't take away from the enjoyment, I really did laugh at the parts that were humorous and that boat scene was really endearing.
Overall a fun movie once you sink your teeth in it, thanks for the video/recommendation!
Amazing vid 🔥, big fan from 🇧🇷
A big part of why the western army lost to Tokugawa was that many Toyotomi loyalist daimyos had little respect for Ishida Mitsunari for reasons you stated and were reluctant (and in some cases downright refused) to obey his commands. This resulted in the western army at Sekigahara becoming very disorganized and uncoordinated comparing to the eastern army which united under Tokugawa Ieyasu's banner. Sometimes I wonder, had Mitsunari did better here and gained more respect and support among other daimyos, would he have had a different fate at the battle of Sekigahara?
In this movie (which is an adaptation from an old, popular Japanese novel), the story that Mitsunari was in charge and insistent on flood sieging Oshi castle was made-up. It was probably Hideyoshi who ordered the strategy, and actually Asano Nagamasa who executed it. Mitsunari was just inspecting the process, which was most of his jobs.
Mitsunari also wasn't the commander of the Western army, and while he was one of the founders, his role was rather insignificant (although he definitely fought valiantly). Instead, The main commander was Mori Terumoto, and second-in-command was Ukita Hideie. Since Mori Terumoto was unable to arrive at his supposed spot, which was taken by Kobayakawa Hideaki, the actual commander when the battle broke out was Ukita Hideie. So, overall (this film included), Mitsunari had been described as a pretty terrible person just because the victorious side was Ieyasu.
Mitsunari also wasn't unpopular, but just that his brother-in-law Fukuhara Nagataka (and a lot of army inspectors during the Japanese invasion of Korea) played favouritism when they reported back to Hideyoshi, causing certain daimyos like Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa to be severely punished. When the 7 samurais attacked Mitsunari, they were also attacking Maeda Geni and Mashita Nagamori, not just Mitsunari.
Yes... The really big divide was in the Toyotomoi retainer ranks. The ones who were considered the military side (Kato Kiyamasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori etc) all were big Ieyasu supporters. It should be noted that Nene (Kitamandokoro) - Hideyoshi`s wife suggested to all of them that supporting Ieyasu was not a betrayal of Hideyoshi.
Is there a purchasable version with English subtitles anywhere?
Great review of the movie, but there is one thing that you did not bring up in this movie. You missed the humor that was put in it? From my experience in the Japanese culture and in filmmaking. I make this movie out as a historical comedy. You actually see it in the beginning of the movie when the characters are introduced. The scene when the farmers are in the rice patty planting. I could name a few other scenes that were actually humorous, but I would be spoiling too much of the movie
"The Twilight Samurai" is a damn good modern samurai movie. It's not a big action movie or one that's highly stylized. It's a very realistic take on a samurai in the 1700's, showing the cultural and moral decay that happened to the samurai, a military social class that had been at peace for a century. That final duel is something that sticks with me, the tension that builds up beforehand is almost too much to take.
Thanks, a very good review, I became curious so I will see this movie .. / Jim : )
Good review. And I look forward to hearing your thoughts on ghost of tsushima
"Drum up some internal conflict among the Oshi defenders." Yeah, sure, I bet that was what the writers of "Enemy At The Gates" were thinking of with that ridiculous love triangle in the movie.
I loved the first film you showed, I think it's up there with the 7 samurai. I like the look of this one! Good review.
I've noticed that the majority of recent Japanese films lack either choosing one side or another (lack of a clear good and bad guy, is an example so as not to hurt people's feelings), (over) emphasis on some sort of meta, or, like this film, lacking a good, satisfying climax.
@ irrelevant? Having a clear protagonist and antagonist is one of the key features of 95% of the films, books, plays, etc., out there. If you don't have a clear good guy and bad guy, whatever their motivations are, you can confuse the audience.
Oh I remember this. 🤔 my ex is from Takamatsu, and I read about Hideyoshi's flooding Tactic there from when I we went to visit Takamatsu castle. 🤔 But the flooding event at the Floating Castle years later would tirn out to be the more fanous story
I remember watching the flooding scene in a video mix and assumed it was bitchu takamatsu. Never heard of this film but nice review
I stumbled upon this movie by accident amd really was surprised how much fun it was
Really like the Background music youre using
I haven't seen this one. I'll have to check it out one day. The last 2 modern samurai movies I saw were Hara-Kiri (it's a remake iirc) & 13 Assassins and I enjoyed them both. Thanks for the heads up on this movie.
13 assassins is probably my favorite modern samurai movie
13 assassins was an amazing samurai movie. Some of the best sword fight in awhile, imo. Also, I know it’s about Korean general Yi Soon Shin, but the movie Admiral Roaring Currents was an awesome movie (arguable not that accurate in how the naval battle takes place.) it covers some of the Injin war. You don’t get many movies of samurai in naval combat
It's very good! Same director also made a remake of Seppuku which was surprisingly great, and I went in very biased since the original is such a masterpiece. But it's a genuinely good movie.
CaiusCassiusLonginus I’ll have to check it out:) thanks for the suggestion.
This was a pretty good video I love samurai films so I might check this out
What do you think of an old samurai movie..when the last sword is drawn?
I have been trying to find a way to watch this movie but it is not being streamed ANYWHERE. Did you purchase a DVD? Also, thanks for the vid!
where did you find the movie? i cant find it online
I hope you'll do the Sekigahara movie when you get there in history :D At least they did a better job showing Yoshitsugu's illness (which was also kinda downplayed in Sanada Maru, probably because they didn't want to subject the actor to spending hours having SFX makeup applied every day).
Are you going to do a review of Sekigahara (2017)?
13 Assasins Twighlight Samurai and Harakiri both Original and Remake are really the only good ones I can think of
because most dont take a realistic approach to the genre, they are more like live action anime
Too much Kurosawa man, I love his movies a lot but other directors were doing better and more daring stuff than him even in his prime. Kurosawa's worship has hurted Japanese filmmaking for samurai films and the perception of them.
Kurosawa was very conservative with the camera in his last years and Samurai films went into that route following the master when in fact in the 60s samurai films had fast cuts for the action, handheld camera scenes, pans, dutch angles, very innovative camera movement, overhead shots and many more things. See for instance the case of After the Rain from 1999 and Dojo Yaburi from 1964, both based in the same novel but the older film has much better pacing, editing and camera work, it's also more fun to watch and the director of After The Rain was AD for Kurosawa in his last movies.
What Miike did with 13 Assassins was to bring back what Eichi Kudo did with the revolution trilogy in the 60s all in one movie and the filmmaking felt modern for many folks. I read an interview with Daisaku Kimura after he filmed Falling Camellia in 2018 talking about his movie and the way he wanted to film the action scenes similar the how he filmed Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo for Kurosawa, that film is gorgeous btw but again everyhing that was done by other directors is shit for this people.
I actually prefer Shura, Humanity And Paper Ballons, Sword Of Doom, Twilight Samurai, Harakiri, Onibaba, Sansho The Bailiff and Ansatsu over a lot of Kurosawa jidaigeki films.
Dare you to do a front to back review of James Clavell's Shogun. My favorite novel of all time. Thanks and RIP pop.
Probably not the book, but I will review the TV series at some point
@@TheShogunate please god don't do that yourself.
@@Chaos8282hahaha I've already seen it once and i have a LOOOT to say
@@TheShogunate the book is where it's at. Mini series is entertaining but the novel is great. Grab the audiobook and fall asleep to it. Might take a month as its 52 odd hours, but so much better a product.
Great review.
I never heard of this movie, can I find it to stream? Any suggestions to where watch Japanese period movies/series.
I honestly couldn't find it online anywhere, had to get a foreign copy.
In terms of watching other samurai films, the criterion channel has tons of classics! you do have to pay for it tho www.criterionchannel.com/
@@TheShogunate thanks!
@@TheShogunate you should get yourself sponsored if you're shouting them out like that XD 😂
@@jdawg7374 I was going to mention it :D
“Ame Agaru”
(After The Rain)
Is a beautiful film.
are there more movies like this? i mean historical drama, real people real events that sort of thing? or at least fictional but close? i mean don't get me wrong the kurosawa style of films are great, but im a bit cowboy-western-samurai-ed out now. kinda want something more on the grander scale of things.
The three I mentioned in here: Kagemusha, Ran, and Heaven and Earth are all huge samurai battle epics. Two of those are from Kurosawa though.
You should do a video on Ghost of Tsuhima
You are going to love Kurosawa mode in Ghost of Tsushima me thinks.
I love the idea but it's probably only something I'll check out after I get through the game at least once!
@@TheShogunate agree game world is too beautiful to put it in movie mode in first playthrough
You should watch God of War. It’s a Chinese movie where Japanese pirates and Samurais invade China. Pretty epic movie.
How about Sekigahara movie next ?
The movie features the Battle of Sekigahara as well as the lead-up to the inevitable battle. The only thing is that Mitsunari is portrayed like a hero while Ieyasu is a scheming dick
Amazing movie, great to know about japanese history with epic scenes and honour of warriors.
Nobunaga ambition Mori bgm and Shimazu unshaken pulse bgm is so good
Waiting for Ghost of Tsushima full review.
Where can I watch this film?
Great video. And what about cartoons ? Does a good samurai cartoon exist ?
For new movies I recommend u the last ronin, the twilight samurai and the hidden blade
anyone know where to find with english subs?
i've been going down the rabbit hole of Samurai movies & history since we're getting closer to the release of Ghost Of Tsushima, in case anyone else wants too watch the older black & white samurai movies I suggest subscribing to the Criterionchannel (App & Website) their they have a variety of black & white foreign films. If you're a first time subscriber you get a 14 day free trial and you can cancel at anytime and still have access until the 14 days is over.
Lack of scale is one of the biggest problems with movies these days. The only one that I can think of that did it right is "The King" on Netflix. Kurosawa was a master at it and every director should study him.
Can you review 47 ronin?
What about Ninja hicho fukuro no shiro(Castle of Owls) for the next review????
I watched this and enjoyed it a bit over the top but a really good movie totally felt for the defenders - I didnt know any history of it but it was good stuff
How’d you feel about the movie the last samurai?
Where can I watch this?
Can we get a review on best Samurai Manga or comics please?
Where to watch
Edit : with English subs or dub in English
Can you do When the Last Sword is Drawn?
have you watch sekigahara 2017?
Have you watched Sanada Maru?
I started it on Amazon Prime but it only shows the first episode so I will need to find another way to watch the rest!
@@TheShogunate this site has all but ep.24. dramacool.bz/drama/sanada-maru.html
Here a link to ep.24.
cooldrama.site/
@@landwarriorii7104 Thank You!
@@TheShogunate no problem btw if u look closely on those sites u find other samurai series product by NHK.
What about Nobunaga's concerto?
Idk 13 Assassins was a superb modern samurai film imo. But I get what you’re saying I prefer the classics generally
Actualy it is not a marsh..it is a castle surounded by rice fields..Which is a muddy terrain and is very hard to step into. Even buffalo gets hard to work on muddy ricefields. Foot soldiers is no an option..
I don't agree with many of your opinions in this review (especially about the music), but it was interesting to watch all the same.
the latest movie about sekigahara is very good. hope you make a video about it
By law: If it contains less than two samurai per full length feature film, it is not a true samurai movie, but only a samurai themed movie. This is the law of the land brought to you by its messenger Rex Remedy.
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this channel should have a million subs
Modern Japanese movie industry has become derivative. New directors are influenced by anime, tokusatsu or tv show style of directing. It also doesn't help that talented people would rather make an anime movie because it is much cheaper to produce than a live action movie. It's really weird to see how Japan's live action movie industry is slowly declining. Granted we do see some gems like Floating Castle but it still hasn't reached the level of a Kurosawa film.
I wouldnt mind seeing films about the neolithic people settling the Oi river valley. They both are the first Japanese, but they are also not Japanese because that is who their descendants are going to become.
This isn’t the last time Mitsunari decided to send in human wave attacks against an entrenched enemy with superior firepower…
Are you talking about Imjin War or Sekigahara?
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Imjin War.
are you talking about the battle when a Korean General used Hwacha to defeat the Japanese army?@@bkjeong4302
3:18 it looks like Star Wars The Emperor's Royal Guards and Darth Vader if they were Samurai
Are Japanese historical films typically more historically accurate in terms of weapons and armour than western historical films?
Not necessarily, I find it varies.
@@TheShogunate okay cool! It must just be I don't know what to look for with Japanese stuff, wheras Mediaeval films I have a better idea.
That last guy near the flaming arrow knew he was sol
Oh please, no more warrior women. Can't really see the appeal there anymore.
I once saw a samurai movie where they in fact had a group of women riding into battle and they depicted it completely realistic, that's what i love about the Japanese, because they were all completely massacred without achieving anything.
Its really hard to find this movie on the internet.
On the small scale of Taiga drama these days, look at the following video from 2:30, this is this year`s taiga drama about Mitsuhide.. The battle here is Okehazama... While it was not a huge battle this makes it out to be small scrum with about 40 guys in total... Also pathetic is they show the heavy rain as Oda gets into position but the battle itself seems like an area where than has been no rain for 6 months as everything kicks up dust (instead of being mud).. Rather lame. th-cam.com/video/Xb7E_6BxdBA/w-d-xo.html
King of Zipangu from 1992 was never and will probably never be equaled as far as Nobunaga's history is concerned. What new series lack is a great script and historical authenticity.
Rorouni kenshin is not bad. Juz finished the whole series on Netflix
I think problem with modern Japanese action or Historical cinema feel a bit too "anime" as in having cartoony feel to it.
I'd say old samurai movies influenced anime with the stage theatre style performance and drama
Takashi Miike's Haragiri is a good modern day samurai film that departs from the formula and follows a poor samurai family trying to survive during the waning years of the samurai class.
I am the same, love the old b/W samurai films. This new shit is to bad.
Akira Kurasawa had murdered so much horses for his movies. Worst of all he had probably never butchered and cooked horses he killed. Such a waste of fine horses and their meat.
Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune names ? I’m watching !!!
review 13 assasins
I’m just waiting for The Last Samurai. XD
Sekigahara movie is the best so far
Most accurate historical movie - Dunkirk?... Prob next in line is fury :) and jojo the rabit
Yeah I know Dunkirk isn't even that accurate but tons of reviewers seem to think it was for some reason lol
3/4 Maybe 2 1/2
King of zinpagu tell the history of Oda Nobunaga
Nearly everyone here is waiting for a ghost of tsushima review😂