Word: samurais
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Both men were up early the next morning because, as one old hand at Matsushita says, "Every day is a samurai duel...
...John Belushi on a mountaintop, roll the cameras, and what will result: (a) Animal House on a Hill, (b) The Blues Brothers Camp Out or (c) Samurai Height Fever? Answer: none of the above. In Continental Divide, Belushi climbs into what he calls his first "realistic acting role," one that is "less of a cartoon than any I've done before." It takes him 14,000 ft. up in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where he portrays a Mike Royko-like Chicago reporter who has raked so much local muck that his editors have decided to pack...
KUROSAWA SAID he was making an antiwar film with Seven Samurai as well; he tacked on a coda where the survivors bitterly realized that their fellow samurai had died for nothing. But we go back to that film for the kinetic charge of the battle scenes, for the lyrical action. Like Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, Kurosawa inadvertently ended up affirming the violence he set out to condemn. Now, he has made a true anti-war film, with all the horror of battle and none of the thrill...
...story here. On the other hand, there is a lot of film here too, more than 2½ hours of it, even in a truncated "international version." The considerable pleasure of Kagemusha tends to be of the stately visual variety. The old master of Japanese cinema (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo) may merely allude to material that in younger hands would be the stuff of a passionate play. But Kurosawa's mood now is autumnal and dispassionate. What really interests him is an imagery that can only be termed timeless: the look of an army on the march, silhouetted against...
...start. ABC and CBS say it should not begin until the new shows air. Long-suffering NBC says it actually began Sept. 15, the usual date in past years and the night, incidentally, when the first episode of Shôgun was shown. Shôgun's slashing samurai sword decapitated the opposition for five nights, and if that week is counted, NBC will have a jump on the other two networks, which just might cause NBC President Fred Silverman to yell "Banzai...