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Samurai – MovieLog https://frowningbear.com/movies What me peepers have reckoned upon Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:17:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Azumi (2003) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2548 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:13 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2548 In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin.

Azumi

From the ravages of war rises the ultimate assassin.

Ryûhei Kitamura

Japan

6.9

IMDb

]]> Last Samurai, The (2003) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2473 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:40:57 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2473 In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…

Last Samurai, The

In the face of an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior.

Edward Zwick

USA

0

IMDb

]]> Ran (1985) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2343 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:59:37 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2343 A story of greed, a lust for power, and ultimate revenge. The Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji has decided to step aside to make room for the younger blood of his three sons, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo, the Lord’s only wish now being to live out his years as an honored guest in the castle of each of his sons in turn. While the older two sons flatter their father, the youngest son attempts to warn him of the folly of expecting the three sons to remain united; enraged at the younger son’s attempt to point out the danger, the father banishes him. True to the younger son’s warning, however, the oldest Son soon conspires with the second son to strip The Great Lord of everything, even his title.

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

Japan, France

0

IMDb

]]> Kagemusha (1980) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2334 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:59:35 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2334 When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.—–In 1572, there is a civil war in Japan, and three powerful clans, leaded by the lords Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai), Nobunaga Oda (Daisuke Ryu) and Ieyasu Tokugawa (Masayuki Yui), dispute the conquest of Kyoto. When Shingen is mortally wounded, the Takeda clan hides the incident and uses a poor thief to be the double of the strategist Shingen and keep the respect of their enemies. Along the years, Kagemusha incorporates the spirit of the warrior of the dead warlord.

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa

Japan, USA

0

IMDb

]]> Yojimbo (1961) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2071 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:34:24 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2071 A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

8.3

IMDb

]]> Seven Samurai (1954) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2046 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:34:20 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2046 A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Shichinin No Samurai

The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

8.8

IMDb

]]> Samurai Cop (1991) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=1032 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:18:47 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=1032 Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.

You Have the Right to Remain Silent … Dead Silent

Amir Shervan

Robert Z’Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley, Mark Frazer, Melissa Moore, Cameron, Gerald Okamura, Dale Cummings, Cranston Komuro, Joselito Rescober, Jerry Black, Orlando Quijano, James Waltz, Reginald Williams, Tom Gleason, Robert Moore, Fred Floyd, John Godfrey

United States

4.6

IMDb

]]> Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengeance (1972) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=718 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:01:27 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=718 In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub’s origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Child and Expertise for Rent
Sword of Vengeance I

Kenji Misumi

Tomisaburô Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomoo Uchida,

Japan

7.9

IMDb

]]> Red Sun (1971) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=709 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:01:26 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=709

The Japanese ambassador is traveling through the Wild West by train, when gangsters hold up the train, to rob a gold shipment. They also carry an ancient Japanese sword the ambassador was carrying as a present for the US president. The ambassador’s bodyguard (Toshiro Mifune) will go after them, with the aid of one of the gang’s leaders betrayed by his pals…

2 Desperados … 1 Hellcat … and a Samurai … the greatest fighting force the West has ever known!

Terence Young

Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine,

France, Italy, Spain

6.9

IMDb

]]> Rashomon (1950) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=388 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:51:27 +0000 http://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=388

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