What does Cinemaphile think of Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi movies?
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What does Cinemaphile think of Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi movies?
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Never seen one.
Recommend me the best one to get started
I've seen the first two. They're kino.
Literally movie #1 - The Tale of Zatoichi.
>The Tale of Zatoichi.
Gonna watch it now. I’ll let you know what i thought about it
well?
A lot of people say to start with the first one: Tale of Zatoichi (op picrel) As it’s seen as the classic. But honestly, they’re mostly self-contained stories so you can watch them in pretty much any order.
Some of my favourites are:
>Zatoichi Challenged
>Zatoichi’s Cane Sword
>Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
>Zatoichi the Fugitive
#16 The Outlaw. It was the first one he did with his own production company and it's the height of the series imo. There's a deeper appreciation that comes from watching them all in order but if I had to pick one it would be that one.
I have seen the original one only and the one where he fought against the one-armed swordsman. Both were kino.
I have seen Kitano's Zatoichi too and it was very good as well.
Yeah, they’re both very different, but each very good.
The quality of the Shintaro Katsu movies fluctuates a bit as the series was so long + lots of different directors, but a lot of it was pure kino.
The complete original collection is on Criterion Channel btw. I'm on #7 at the moment.
I watched Yakuza Bozu (Hoodlum Priest) once as it had been mistakenly labelled as a Zatoichi film.
It’s not particularly great, but it was funny to see Shintaro Katsu’s performance in it. I half think he took the role just because he was sick of playing a good guy and just wanted to play a complete and utter butthole.
For me it's Hanzo the Razor. It's like Zatoichi but pro-rape
I hate rape.
But the women whom Hanzo rapes love it, so it's not rape rape
Women usually love getting raped. So that's a moot point.
Basically every sex scene in traditional Japanese literature is like that.
watching it now
>lmao at this scene
The second part of the trilogy is the best IMO. And yeah, that's his signature rape move and occurs in all three films
Hanzo was nothing short of painful to watch. Approximately 45 minutes of dick torture cut with 45 minutes of psychedelic rape. The pacing was awful and even as a fun campy flick I found it nothing but dull. Then again, I don’t care for dick torture so maybe that’s just me
"acting"
That's just how Japanese behave irl
There's some good Kung Fu/Samurai kino on Criterion. I watched the first Zatoichi there recently, it was great. 2nd and third movie not as much. Check out -
Dragon Inn
The Last Hurrah for Chivalry (john woo movie)
Tenchu
First three Zatoichi films are decent. Most films from the series are quite average, the only real stinker was the Yojimbo crossover one, that was so boring
>he likes the boring Yojimbo crossover
Ngmi
>Dragon Inn
Absolute kino.
Although, the defeat of the eunuch baddie was some James Gunn tier shit; let's run really fast around him so he gets dizzy!
They're all great.
His brother is awesome in Lone Wolf and Cub too.
>no Goyokin
for shame
It's posted above you
Have watched 20 out of 25 of those movies.
But.... No Kagemusha, no Rurouni Kenshin, no Throne of Blood, no Blade of the Immortal, no Zatoichi, no Tsubaki Sanjuro, no Tale of Ugetsu.
Seriously? Update.
There's already too much Kurosawa. It doesn't need further casualisation
Sword of Doon deserved a sequel
Why does Zatoichi travel from studio to studio? Who owns the IP?
Reminder that Rutger Hauer played the Americanized Zatoichi and it was pretty good.
I preferred the remake with Takashi Miike, am I a pleb?
being able to sit through a subtitled film automatically puts you in the top 5% of Cinemaphile
Is there any reason to watch old Japanese films that aren't Kurosawa?
Yes. Nagisa Ōshima, Masahiro Shinoda, Kei Kumai, Kon Ichikawa, Teruo Ishii, Kinji Fukasaku, Yasuzō Masumura.
Sure. At one point Japan made the best genre films and practically invented a few of them.
Japanese and Italian cinema of the 70s is crazy
Well 70s were rough in general but Japan was a special case. Daiei and Shintoho went bankrupt, Nikkatsu was forced to become a softcore movies studio and even Toho barely managed to keep it together. Kurosawa only made two movies and tried to commit suicide.
Yes, practically the entirety of their Golden Age and New Wave.
Kurosawa isn't even the best Golden Age director, he gets mogged by Ozu, Mizoguchi and Naruse
nah, you're wrong
Nah, I'm right
Literally my favorite japanese movie series.
There are really like three or four choices anyway.
Ok slightly more for those familiar with Otoko wa Tsurai yo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo
He fricking kicks ass, and him being a masseuse and wearing those little panties he always wears is kino as frick
I recall enjoying the ones I watched and episodes from the TV series.
I suspect Lone Wolf and Cub is overall better though.
I bought the Criterion boxset and stil lhaven't watched a single movie from it yet.
i like all of them because samurais are awesome. i like it when he gambles and wins
I saw some documentary about the star of these movies. He was an absent father and kind of an butthole.
All accomplished men are
>When director Akira Kurosawa cast him for the lead role in Kagemusha (1980), Katsu left before the first day of shooting was over.[4] Though accounts differ as to the incident, the most consistent one details Katsu's clash with Kurosawa regarding bringing his own film crew to the set (to film Kurosawa in action for later exhibition to his own acting students).[5][6]
>On the morning of Monday 26 December 1988, Ryûtarô Gan (the eldest son of Shintarô Katsu), who played Boss Goemon, while on set shooting the film, stabbed and killed actor Yukio Katô in a tragic accident. Gan (who was 24 at the time) struck Katô (age 34) in the neck with a katana long sword, which was supposed to be a prop, while performing an action scene.[5]