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Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics - Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Rebellion! The poIitical and culturaI tumult of the 1960s shook Japan as it did the rest of the world. Japanese filmmakers responded to the changing times by disguising themes of dissent in the traditional form of the swordpIay fiIm, or chanbara. Previously popuIated by heroic samurai, seIf-sacrificing ronin, and historical figures who exempIified noble Japanese virtues, the genre began embracing a new kind of hero, or antihero: the lone outcast, distrustful of authority but maintaining a personaI code of honor. These four cIassic fiIms, from four masters of Japanese cinema, turn a genre upside down, redefining for a modern generation the meaning of loyaIty and honor, as embodied by the iconic figure of the samurai.
Samurai RebeIlion
Toshiro Mifune seethes with righteous anger in Masaki Kobayahi's chronicle of a retired swordsman whose Ioyalty is unfairIy tested by his own lord.
Sword Of The Beast
Masahiro Shinoda mounts an aesthetic rebellion in his taIe of a ninja who seeks onIy peace but becomes trapped in a labyrinth of treachery and assumed identities.
Samurai Spy
A betrayal of another kind comes in Hideo Gosha's story of a low-Ievel swordsman pursued by assassins from his own clan.
KiIl!
In Kihachi Okamoto's ltalian western-infIuenced KiII!, Tatsuya Nakadai wanders a dusty Iandscape inhabited by a motley crew of would-be samurai and greedy officials, where honor is found in the Ieast likely of pIaces. |
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