このアップデートはアメリカ人のためなので日本人だったらもう関係ないけど、アメリカでは三池崇史の一命が7月20日に公開される。やっぱヤンチャディグスは何よりも好きなのが侍の歴史とススケボーなので、このアップデートはこの二つの内の一つに関係するからアメリカに伝いたかった。この映画が面白かったと思ってアメリカ人に勧めたいんだけだ。日本人にこのアップデートが短くてどうでもことでごめん!www
Yo fam! So here at Yancha Digs, if you can't tell by our style already, we're down with a certain few things that we feel sets our style apart from other skate blogs/amateur skate brands. Namely, samurai. We really fucking dig samurai. So sometimes, a film, or comic, pop culture novelty, or more seriously, a piece of academic research comes along, and we get excited. Like "feel these nipples" kind of excited. That's how much we're into this kind of stuff.
So if you at all, dig our style, then perhaps you might dig what makes us who we are. It's for this reason that I feel the need to tell our American readers about Takashi Miike's new movie that's coming out in the States on July 20th called "Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai." Here's the trailer:
I saw this movie when it premiered in Japan under it's Japanese title "Ichimei," and I gotta say, it ruled pretty hard. It's not quite a non-stop action packed thriller some of you might be hoping for, and it's of course a movie so it's not the most historically accurate piece of work, but it's a damn good narrative with some damn good drama, a killer twist, and an ending sword fight that left me without a clean pair of underwear. It without a doubt carves its own place within the world of modern samurai cinema. Check this shit out.
Film maker that has grown from his roots in shock cinema with films like ICHI the Killer.
ReplyDeleteHis newest looks to be his best, and it may even be better than the original film of the same name. Hari-Kiri, a bad ass film, with the Toshiro Hifune as the cut you up samurai.
Yeah man! This remake of the 1962 Harakiri, isn't quite a match for the original but if you liked Miike's previous movie, 13 Assassins, then you'll still enjoy this. Sadly neither of the two had Toshiro Mifune (it was Tatsuya Nakadai you're thinking of- an equally badass actor), but this remake is certainly worthy of its own honors within the modern samurai film genre.
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