[sumo] Re: Iijime... [off-topic]

[Ian Darrow <ginnosho@yahoo.com>]

--- Tom Quinn <ytmq945@hotmail.com> wrote:

> There was a Japanese movie a few years ago.  The star was the same actor who 
> beat Tom Cruise senseless in "Last Samurai."  The movie -- Tasugari Sebei -- 
> and I apologize again if the romanji sucks, was about the end of the 
> shogunate.  Samurai had become salarymen.  There was only one guy in their 
> "office" who could fight, and he ended up doing their dirty work.  He was 
> poor, and a widower, but he still "had it."  This is one of the best movies 
> I have seen period, so don't miss it.

_Tasogare Seibei_, which is in release on DVD in America as _Twilight Samurai_ is an
excellent movie starring the generously talented Sanada Hiroyuki who many may
remember from _The Last Samurai_ and _Ringu_.  This is a film that Ebert gave a rare
four stars to, saying, "There is a kind of perfection in laboring humbly all your
life only to show, as the end approaches, that you had greatness all along. I am half
convinced that as Seibei's daughter remembers her father's life, she is also
describing [director] Yamada's."  I personally also recommend it highly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351817/
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040521/REVIEWS/405210302/1023

Ian

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[EndPost by Ian Darrow <ginnosho@yahoo.com>]