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« Reply #3767 on: January 26, 2016, 09:36:02 PM » |
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« Reply #3769 on: January 28, 2016, 04:24:56 PM » |
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I'm watching it tonight. If you really want to go crazy, you could read Red Harvest and watch Last Man Standing (which I still haven't seen) and A Colt Is My Passport. One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at its finest. https://www.criterion.com/films/2959-a-colt-is-my-passport |
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« Reply #3773 on: January 29, 2016, 01:59:05 AM » |
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A Colt Is My Passport sounds very interesting. I might have to add that to my watch list. 
Check it out. For plots, I was thinking of another Jo Shishdo movie, Youth of the Beast, but it came out in 1963, so was not influenced by A Fistful of Dollars. It's actually possible it was more influenced by the source material, Red Harvest. Here's what I wrote about it somewhere else in this thread: I forgot to mention the basic plot of this film [Youth of the Beast]... An ex-cop plays two gangs against each other in order to destroy both to avenge the death of a cop. Does the plot sound basically familiar, a tough guy working two rival gangs into a frenzy to destroy each other? There's so many great things about this film that make it worth watching. One is that this film in many ways has much more in common with the novel Red Harvest than the much more famous films Yojimbo and Fistful of Dollars. And the second thing is that the film is quite amazing on its own. The director Seijun Suzuki is someone worth paying attention to, and this was a major breakthrough film for him. As well the main actor Jô Shishido is something on his own. He's no Toshirô Mifune, or Clint Eastwood (obviously!), but he's the perfect B-movie action star to play the cool, tough, loner typical of movies like this. And his odd look, achieved through cheek augmentation surgery (no kidding!) makes him all the more ruggedly cool to play the anti-hero in these gangster noir B-movies. Check it out. http://www.clinteastwood.org/forums/index.php?topic=4745.msg194385#msg194385And to stay on topic, I watched tonight Yojimbo. |
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« Reply #3775 on: January 29, 2016, 09:35:42 PM » |
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I enjoyed Yojimbo more when I first watched it about 15 years ago. I don't know why I didn't enjoy it all that much now. It's possible that since I've watched so many new (and very violent) Asian films recently, it didn't have enough action. Since it's mainly an action film, the action needed to be enough to hold my attention, and it was too quick and far between, and when it happened, it wasn't all that satisfying. But, I did enjoy some of the story elements. The woman who played the "Mrs. Baxter" role was great.
Am I alone on this, or did anyone else who's watched it recently feel the same way?
Plus, after having watched A Fistful of Dollars earlier this week, there's just no comparison. It's far and away the better movie.
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