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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Year: 1967
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the title character’s quest to become acknowledged as the best swordsman in Japan.
The movie has beautiful vistas, fluid camerawork, and decent martial arts choreography, but that pretty much exhausts my praise.
The huge problem at the center is […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Swordplay
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Year: 1963
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
At the end of Shinobi No Mono, the dastardly premier of Japan, Oda Nobunaga (the great Tomisaburô Wakayama) had wiped out the Iga Ninja clan almost completely. Not content with that, his minions have been picking off the stragglers and executing them […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1965
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sword of Fire has a great opening scene. Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) is walking along the road, minding his own business, when a man and woman stumble across his path. The man is doing his best to cut the woman in two with a […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Horror/ Drama
Director: Katsuya Matsumura
Year: 1992
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s a good thing that All Night Long was intended as a serious movie, not merely a sex and gore provocation, because as a genre flick, it fails pretty badly.
Let’s meet our heroes: there’s Tanaka Tetsuya (Yôji Ietomi), a painfully shy private school […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
With Sword of Seduction, the Sleepy Eyes Of Death series continues to be a delight.
The inner circle of the court is run by Princess Kiku (Michiko Ai), the former shogun’s daughter. No men are allowed in the inner circle, which leads to boredom and […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Year: 1962
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
By all rights, Shinobi No Mono aka Band of Assassins should have been a blast. It has everything that you could want in a ninja picture: exotic weapons and poisons, acrobatics and sleight of hand, and intrigue by the bucket.
Alas, the filmmakers are […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Akira Inoue
Year: 1965
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Zatoichi’s Revenge begins with the title character voicing gratitude to the sun for the warmth on his face and the rice ball that he’s eating. The humble gratitude for such small things is touching and emphasizes how little Zatoichi has in […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Yamashita Kousaku
Year: 1970
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
One of the truly impressive things about popular Japanese cinema from the late 60s and early 70s is the absurdly high quality control producers had over their series. The champ in terms of consistent quality is of course Zatoichi, but Red Peony Gambler is no […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Year: 1969
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I suppose it had to happen eventually–a lousy Okatsu movie.
The problem isn’t the acting, or the cinematography, or the swordplay, the characters, the dialog or even the setup. The problem is the terrible plotting from screenwriters Kôji Takada and Hideaki Yamamoto.
Okatsu’s origin story […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here in the United States, we are fast developing an underclass of throwaway people. They do not consume in adequate quantities and they have no marketable skills, so they are deemed worthless, discarded, and left to fend for themselves.
Remarkably, that is the situation in […]
