Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "samurai"

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The Bushido Blade ** (1981, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Frank Converse, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 9498

‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]

Mar, 12

The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]

May, 31

Kagemusha ***** (1980, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu) – Classic Movie Review 6426

The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is on commanding form in this thrilling 1980 film from his older age (he was 70) with a story about a 16th-century nobleman who saves the life of a […]

Dec, 18

Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin] *** (2017, Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi) – Movie Review 

The hundredth film by master director Takashi Miike is Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin], which stars Takuya Kimura as skilled samurai Manji, cursed by some ancient crone with immortality after a legendary battle in which he more […]

Oct, 25

Sanjuro [Tsubaki Sanjûrô] ****½ (1962, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 4925

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa is in a much lighter mood for his follow-up to Yojimbo. But it is another thrilling action-filled samurai action adventure, with the great Toshirô Mifune on his best form in the title […]

Jan, 23

Yojimbo ***** (1961, Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai) – Classic Movie Review 4924

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Japanese adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as crafty wandering samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake, who hires himself out as a professional killer and bodyguard (yojimbo in Japanese) to both sides of gangsters in a […]

Jan, 23

The Spirit *** (2008, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King) – Classic Movie Review 4621

The mastermind behind Sin City and 300, director Frank Miller, lavishly splashes his incredible, eye-catching visual style all over this astonishing 2008 comic book movie, based on the legendary comic book series created by Will […]

Nov, 09

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