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...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," Kitano says. "There is no glaring at the opponent as Zatoichi is holding a sword. The fight is over as soon as it begins...
...Japan's king of cool, Kitano, and its crown prince of cool, Asano, had already served in a samurai drama of a different sort, Nagisa Oshima's gay-themed Gohatto. Unhappy with Asano's fighting scenes in that film, Kitano put the indie icon through three months of extra sword training before filming began. "I put a lot of energy into Asano's scenes," says Kitano. "I gave him all the cool ways of withdrawing his sword and ended up with nothing to do myself." The energy pays off. As a samurai on the edge, the brooding Asano almost manages...
...charismatic, innovative. Kitano's Zatoichi succeeds, not by obliterating Katsu's character but by giving it a new Beat. The winning result (the film had critics swooning at the Venice Film Festival last week) is as cutting edge and timeless as the samurai genre itself. "There are bad guys, sword fights, pitiful kids, and everyone ends up dancing," says Kitano. "There are no more righteous films around." Even a blind man could see that...
...also wrote several books, including “Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy After Louis XIV,” “Strasbourg in Transition, 1648-1919,” “Europe, 1780-1830” and “Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism.” When he died, he had written several chapters for a book on the Huguenots...
...didn't it should be abolished. Do you separate God and government? I say not. I think [Jefferson] intimately connected God and government because it was those rights that God gave us that government was to secure for us. We've changed the First Amendment into a sword to take our life rights from us instead of a shield to protect them...