Re: [sumo] Iijime...

[Kuramarujo <klemmerj@webtrek.com>]

Tom Quinn 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.

	English title "Twilight Samurai" (romanji "Tasogare Seibei" according 
to IMDB) staring Hiroyuki Sanada.  This was one of the best 
non-Kurosawa/Mifune Samurai movies I've seen.  BTW, Hiroyuki Sanada is 
actually very accomplished with the katana and spent quite a bit of time 
helping Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe learn to fight.  It's kinda funny in 
that he played the sward master/teacher in "The Last Samurai" both on 
screen and off.

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