2004 ‘隠し剣 鬼の爪’ Directed by Yôji Yamada
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Although i liked it comparatively lesser than The Twilight Samurai,it's still a great movie which transcends the genre one has come to associate with it. Acting,score and cinematography are all quite impressive.
Yoji Yamada sure is insatiable, when it come to creating Motion Pictures! The Man is now 85 and still puts a movie out every Year!
The typical japanese Workaholic!
Here we have a wonderful Love-Story that can't be, because the standards and practices condone it.
A Samurai could never marry someone under is Rang, and a Housemaid is completely out of the Question. What do you do, if your an honest Person, who just wants a happy life without much fuss and galore?
Heartbreaking Performances from Nagase and Matsu, you only can root for this pair! He's a charming fellow, with the heart on the right place and she is adorable beyond believe!
Also, one of the realest Fighting scenes in the Samurai-Genre I think.
But it is not a Samurai Movie, it is a Love Story.
Be Aware of that!
Strikes against the Hydra: the nineteenth Head!
This is almost an exact copy of The Twilight Samurai to the point where the whole thing is entirely predictable however I could not help but enjoy it tremendously even though I knew every beat it would take.
A slow burn of a historical drama that only gets better as it goes on. Beautifully shot, beautifully scored, and just damn good.
Very nice Sunday afternoon Samurai Drama. I really like these quiet films that give you an insight into the daily lives of Samurai. Loved that it looked like an old film.
Als Yoji Yamada nach der Premiere seines Wettbewerbsbeitrages „Kakushi Ken - Oni No Tsume“, „Das geheime Schwert“, auf die Bühne des Berlinale Palastes tritt, ist er allein wie der Samurai, dessen Geschichte er uns gerade gezeigt hat. Der Regisseur ist japanisch-schlicht, aber modisch gekleidet, trägt schwarze Hornbrille und eine schwungvolle Künstlerfrisur. Man muss sich vergegenwärtigen, dass der 1931 geborene Yamada uns gerade seinen 78. (!) Film und seinen zweiten Wettbewerbsbeitrag nach „Samurai im Zwielicht“ vor zwei Jahren präsentierte. Seine zwischen 1969 und 1996 inszenierte und 48 Folgen umfassende Filmserie um den Gauner Tora-san gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Sequels der Filmgeschichte. Yamada hat also nicht nur ein Stück japanische Filmgeschichte geschrieben, seine Lebensspanne ist auch lang genug um zu wissen, was…
Similar themes and tropes to Twilight Samurai. A thwarted samurai gets revenge with martial tricks he learnt from his master, but not before he builds a relationship with a family servant. Bizarrely, a sort of happy ending, as he leaves his life and location to seek a new one, and takes teh woman with him. They tease one another. Ninjo defeats giri.
Installment kedua Samurai Trilogy ini intrik ceritanya lebih kompleks dan berlapis ketimbang yang pertama (Twilight Samurai), latar sejarahnya lebih berasa, juga banyak karakter dan kelas terlibat tapi so far porsinya pas dan mendukung naskah.
"Usai terbayar dendam, apa yang harus kulakukan?"
A slow burn of a historical drama that only gets better as it goes on. Beautifully shot, beautifully scored, and just damn good.
Yoji Yamada sure is insatiable, when it come to creating Motion Pictures! The Man is now 85 and still puts a movie out every Year!
The typical japanese Workaholic!
Here we have a wonderful Love-Story that can't be, because the standards and practices condone it.
A Samurai could never marry someone under is Rang, and a Housemaid is completely out of the Question. What do you do, if your an honest Person, who just wants a happy life without much fuss and galore?
Heartbreaking Performances from Nagase and Matsu, you only can root for this pair! He's a charming fellow, with the heart on the right place and she is adorable beyond believe!
Also, one of the realest Fighting scenes in the Samurai-Genre I think.
But it is not a Samurai Movie, it is a Love Story.
Be Aware of that!
Strikes against the Hydra: the nineteenth Head!
This is a very traditional film. I had not heard of this film or of its director, Yoji Yamada, but his career dates back to the 1960s and he seems to have spent his time at Shouchiku making genre movies. But Yamada’s sensibility goes back before the 1960s – although a film about samurai it is not a fevered action movie, instead it builds its story brick by brick, concentrating on character, filling in the details, made in the modest, unassuming style which is now often designated as “classical”, e.g., the camera and the cutting always serve the story, following the characters and actions, never assuming importance for themselves. (But the film’s colour scheme is often dominated by browns, a…
Although i liked it comparatively lesser than The Twilight Samurai,it's still a great movie which transcends the genre one has come to associate with it. Acting,score and cinematography are all quite impressive.
Yôji Yamada Szamuráj-trilógiájának második része.
Nem egyenes folytatás, hanem kicsit mintha Sergio Leone Dollár-trilógiája és Simon Pegg Cornetto-trilógiája között: Hasonló a hangulat, lassú dráma, ami egy különc, csodabogár szamurájról szól, akinek végül meg kell ölnie egy másik szamurájt, megspékelve egy beteljesületlen szerelmi szállal. De az előzőhöz csak annyiban kapcsolódik, hogy ő is ugyanattól a mestertől tanult, akitől az előző rész főszereplője.
Lekötött, beszippantott ez is, de nem tudtam ebből akkora mondanivalót vagy üzenetet kivenni, mint az előző részből.
Egyetlenegy óriási negatívum volt csak: az a balfaszkodás, amit a szamurájuk műveltek az új, nyugati technológiával, azt kínos volt nézni. Körülbelül azokat a '60-as évekbeli amcsi filmeket idézte, ahol az ázsiaiak mindig balfaszként voltak ábrázolva.
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