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...would Kitano trade in his pistols for samurai swords and tackle the legacy of a cinema legend? Why abandon the complexity of his recent films to remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...film there is a feeling of fast action at the contemporary speed of the modern film." Translation: everything from the electron-quick fights to the rapier-thin characterizations is designed to move the film as fast as Zatoichi's blade. Katsu's early Zatoichi films helped free the samurai genre from its funereal pace and inflexible morality. His garrulous Zatoichi loved gambling and sometimes had to be convinced, or bribed, to do the right thing. But next to Kitano's rapid exercise in amoral action, Katsu's Zatoichi films can seem like plodding and preachy relics. "There is no waste...
...film's plot is as streamlined as its combat. Zatoichi (Kitano) wanders into a village beset by gangs, one of which has hired a lethal samurai (Tadanobu Asano) to wipe out its enemies. Meanwhile, a geisha assassin and her brother, a female impersonator, seek revenge on the criminals who slaughtered their family. Zatoichi ends up in the middle. This is a film designed to get to the payoff as fast as possible, and that payoff is bloodier than a hematology convention. Hyperviolence is not new to the Zatoichi oeuvre, but Kitano does Katsu one, two or 11 better. To Kitano...
...sang Elvis together." TOM CRUISE, Actor, on meeting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at his home. Cruise was in Japan to promote his new movie The Last Samurai...
From epaulets at Jean Paul Gaultier and samurai-inspired skirts at Alexander McQueen to "fetish-gladiator" leathers at vintage shops like Cherry in New York City and Los Angeles, 'tis the season to get in touch with your inner warrior. The trend should only grow after Tom Cruise's star turn in The Last Samurai, due out in December. Costume designer Ngila Dickson scoured museums in Japan, studied countless patterns and worked with blacksmiths, jewelers and Japanese actors to create 300 suits of armor. "We didn't want to let anyone down--especially the Japanese," says Dickson, who was nominated...