How about a movie thread?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

I have been watching Japanese female Samurai flicks lately


they star Junko Miyazano and are really good....

If you guys like Tarantino this where he gets his stuff
If you like sword welding Japanese chicks in kimonos (and who does not? ) you need to get these and others....

Legends of the Poisonous Seductress: Vol. 1: Female Demon Ohyaku
Legends of the Poisonous Seductress: Vol. 2: Quick Draw Okatsu
Legends of the Poisonous Seductress: Vol. 3: Okatsu the Fugitive

Try "Striptease Samurai Squad".

I love chanbara flicks!

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Try "Striptease Samurai Squad".

I love chanbara flicks!

John

I love the Pinky Violence movies and I really love Reiko Ike....

alas all my favorite Japanese female motorcycle gangsters and ninjas are very old now...like me

Have you seen any of the much later Takashi Miike movies John, such as Ichi The Killer?
Some of his movies are very good..

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

I love the Pinky Violence movies and I really love Reiko Ike....

alas all my favorite Japanese female motorcycle gangsters and ninjas are very old now...like me

Have you seen any of the much later Takashi Miike movies John, such as Ichi The Killer?
Some of his movies are very good..

Only "13 Assassins". I know of "Ichi the Killer" but haven't seen it. I tend to like the traditional chanbara stuff like Kurosawa, Gosha, Inagaki and Kobayashi. I've gotten into "Beat" Takeshi a little. I like him, both as a director and actor.

I'm not really much for grindhouse. Of the quirkier stuff, I only ever saw the three "Hanzo the Razor" flicks and didn't really like them all that much. I do like Katsu though (he played the lead in those). The "Zatoichi" films are a hoot and he made a movie with Mifune called "Incident At Blood Pass" that I like a lot. Mifune plays the Yojimbo character (again) and Katsu plays an outlaw. I really like that one.

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Only "13 Assassins". I know of "Ichi the Killer" but haven't seen it. I tend to like the traditional chanbara stuff like Kurosawa, Gosha, Inagaki and Kobayashi. I've gotten into "Beat" Takeshi a little. I like him, both as a director and actor.

I'm not really much for grindhouse. Of the quirkier stuff, I only ever saw the three "Hanzo the Razor" flicks and didn't really like them all that much. I do like Katsu though (he played the lead in those). The "Zatoichi" films are a hoot and he made a movie with Mifune called "Incident At Blood Pass" that I like a lot. Mifune plays the Yojimbo character (again) and Katsu plays an outlaw. I really like that one.

John

Miike can be hit or miss, but I liked Ichi the Killer, Dead Or Alive ( the sequel sucks don't get that), and Audition. If I am not mistaken the Hanzo films are sort of like the Gor novels as far as the treatment of women are concerned.
One of my more favorite serious Japanese films from the immediate post-WWII era is a movie called Stray Dog. Mifune plays the lead character but I really enjoyed his co-star, a cop played by an actor named Takashi Shimura...he was in the The Seven Samurai also. If you have not seen Stray Dog it is excellent. Some of the movies made about World War II from the Japanese perspective are very interesting. They are not jingoistic but rather about the effect it had on the individual soldiers, sort of like the films made in the 70s about Vietnam here in the States. Ichikawa's Fire On The Plain is an outstanding movie about the Japanese in the Philippines after the end of the fighting.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

Miike can be hit or miss, but I liked Ichi the Killer, Dead Or Alive ( the sequel sucks don't get that), and Audition. If I am not mistaken the Hanzo films are sort of like the Gor novels as far as the treatment of women are concerned.
One of my more favorite serious Japanese films from the immediate post-WWII era is a movie called Stray Dog. Mifune plays the lead character but I really enjoyed his co-star, a cop played by an actor named Takashi Shimura...he was in the The Seven Samurai also. If you have not seen Stray Dog it is excellent. Some of the movies made about World War II from the Japanese perspective are very interesting. They are not jingoistic but rather about the effect it had on the individual soldiers, sort of like the films made in the 70s about Vietnam here in the States. Ichikawa's Fire On The Plain is an outstanding movie about the Japanese in the Philippines after the end of the fighting.

I have "Stray Dog" in my Hulu queue along with a lot of other Japanese films, mostly chambara but not all. Shimura is an actor I know and like. He played the leader (the Yul Brenner character) in the Seven Samurai.

Another actor I like is Tatsuya Nakadai. He's a very powerful actor with a lot of range. "Harakiri" or "Kagemusha" may be his best work.

I'll have to look for "Fire On The Plain". That sounds very interesting.

And yes, the "Hanzo" movies are seriously misogynistic and perverse like the Gor novels.

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I have "Stray Dog" in my Hulu queue along with a lot of other Japanese films, mostly chambara but not all. Shimura is an actor I know and like. He played the leader (the Yul Brenner character) in the Seven Samurai.

Another actor I like is Tatsuya Nakadai. He's a very powerful actor with a lot of range. "Harakiri" or "Kagemusha" may be his best work.

I'll have to look for "Fire On The Plain". That sounds very interesting.

John

I highly recommend that and another movie called "The Burmese Harp"

well time for bed see you tomorrow! No doubt the "Pot Stirrer" (Pete) will be back lol