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.
Can the common audicences see a movie about samurais that is more interested in telling a romantic story and focusing on its characters instead of the action?
An interesting question that this film responds with sufficient quality.
Going only by the title and short description, I expected a dramatic story, ending in an epic fight, where the 'hero' gets to use his technique.
I enjoyed the acting and scenery, but the story itself was a total lackluster.
The comedic scenes felt forced and out of place, there is so much time wasted on random things instead of using it to *actually* flesh out both his struggles with duty and love.
Then there's the final battle which was incredibly disappointing to me.
Overall it felt as it's all over the place, I wasn't even remotely emotionally involved, the actors not having any chemistry also added to that.
Decent, but there's plenty of samurai movies that are more enjoyable.
The Hidden Blade (2004) is the second samurai film directed by Yoji Yamada. I really enjoyed his first film, Twilight Samurai a lot. The two films have several themes in common: the focus on an honorable low ranking samurai with superior swordsmanship skills caught in a difficult romantic situation that cannot be easily consummated. Both of the films have exhaustively researched the period details regarding almost every aspect of society from clothes to hot bottle foot warmers. Also, Yamada is putting forth the revisionist argument that most samurai never had to kill and that they were frightened to fight sword battles. This film is also set at the end of the Edo period before the Meiji restoration. It chronicles the…
i’m just not used to japanese movies. For me somehow their acts kinda theatrical / stiff (compared to koreans).
This one is also fit into that category (for me). But somehow i enjoyed it ( though i yawned here n there). And the sword fighting scene, is just natural.
Stumbled onto this gem on Kanopy tonight. More people need to see and talk about this.
Yamada hits basically every beat that you’d want a period epic to hit. A leisurely pace never wears on you, instead giving you ample time to absorb how much detail is put into every frame. It’s a sharp character study of a man sitting right in the fulcrum of a culture that’s seemingly changing overnight, that’s then tied in a bow by a lovely, easy romance.
Can the common audicences see a movie about samurais that is more interested in telling a romantic story and focusing on its characters instead of the action?
An interesting question that this film responds with sufficient quality.
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.
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