Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*One of the more successful efforts to boost a western out of the wagon ruts of mediocrity. Rerun of old (70) Movie Villain Sessue Hayakawa's magnificent failure to cross the plains as a sword-swinging samurai (TIME...
...Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape and samurai swordplay. Naturally, before the fight ends, all the girls get their kimonos ripped...
...Samurai (at the Telepix). A superior Far Eastern "Western," recounting the life of the legendary Japanese warrior Musashi, powerfully portrayed by Toshiro (Rashomon) Mifune. Handsomely color-photographed, this won an Academy Award as "best foreign film." For those whose Japanese is shaky, there are excellent English subtitles...
...there was the Civil Rights Western, and all the persecuted Piutes, molested Mexicans, downtrodden Jewish drummers and tormented Chinese laundrymen had their day. Scriptwriters are now riding farther from the train, rustling plots (from De Maupassant, Stevenson, even Aristophanes), introducing foreigners (an Italian tailor on Zane Grey Theater, a samurai on Wagon Train) and dabbling in rape, incest, miscegenation, cannibalism...
...ready. The bathers were in the tub, and a crowd of admirers was pressed around Photographer Launois. Suddenly the door was pulled open, and an old man, shouting fiercely, ordered him to take down his equipment. "He was gesturing wildly," reported Launois, "and barking in the old samurai style which I had only heard in the movies before." The village chief tried to convince the old man that Launois' motives were dignified, but he had no success. Finally, when the bathers became frightened by the commotion and departed for home, the old man himself undressed and slid into...