Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics
Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics
Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics
Aka:
- Sword Of The Beast
- Samurai Rebellion
- Samurai Spy
- Kill!
Land: Japan 1965 / 1967 / 1965 / 1968
Release: USA
Genre: Jidaigeki
Lz: --- / 121Minuten / --- / --- Minuten
Bild: NTSC, 2.35:1, B&W
Ton: Japanisch DD Mono
Untertitel: Englisch
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Go Kato, Mikijiro Hira, Toshie Kimura, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Directed: Hideo Gosha, Masaki Kobayashi, Kihachi Okamoto, Masahiro Shinoda
Extras:
Samurai Rebellion
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Excerpt from 1993 interview with director Masaki Kobayashi
- New essay by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
Sword Of The Beast
- New essay by Japanese-film and –culture critic Patrick Macias
Samurai Spy
- Gallery of key characters
- Exclusive new 16-minute video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda
- New essay by film scholar Alain Silver
Kill!
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- New essay by film and culture critic Howard Hampton
Publisher: Criterion (USA)
Regioncode: 1
Product-ID: JCUS104 Availability: In stock |
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Synopsis
Rebellion! The political and cultural tumult of the 1960s shook Japan as it did the rest of the world. Japanese filmmakers responded to the changing times by disguising themes of dissent in the traditional form of the swordplay film, or Chambara. Previously populated by heroic samurai, self-sacrificing ronin, and historical figures who exemplified noble Japanese virtues, the genre began embracing a new kind of hero, or antihero: the lone outcast, distrustful
of authority but maintaining a personal code of honor. These four classic films, from four masters of Japanese cinema, turn a genre upside down, redefining for a modern generation the meaning of loyalty and honor, as embodied by the iconic figure of the samurai.
Samurai Rebellion
Toshiro Mifune seethes with righteous anger in Masaki Kobayahi's chronicle of a retired swordsman whose loyalty is unfairly tested by his own lord.
Sword Of The Beast
Masahiro Shinoda mounts an aesthetic rebellion in his tale of a ninja who seeks only peace but becomes trapped in a labyrinth of treachery and assumed identities.
Samurai Spy
A betrayal of another kind comes in Hideo Gosha's story of a low-level swordsman pursued by assassins from his own clan.
Kill!
In Kihachi Okamoto's Italian western-influenced 'Kill!', Tatsuya Nakadai wanders a dusty landscape inhabited by a motley crew of would-be samurai and greedy officials, where honor is found in the least likely of places.