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' The Samurai ') is a 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film [7] written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier. A Franco-Italian production, it depicts the intersecting paths of a professional hitman (Delon) trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have ...
The 1984 film Vigil was filmed at Uruti. [6] Much of the 2003 film The Last Samurai was filmed in the Uruti Valley, ...
Filming took place in New Zealand, mostly in the Taranaki region, [8] with mostly Japanese cast members and an American production crew. This location was chosen due to the fact that Egmont/Mount Taranaki resembles Mount Fuji, and also because there is a lot of forest and farmland in the Taranaki region. American Location Manager Charlie ...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film produced, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.It stars Forest Whitaker as the title character, a hitman for the mafia who adheres to the ancient warrior code of the samurai, as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure.
Schilling gave the film 4 stars out of 5, but, notwithstanding other favorable comparisons, he noted that it barely "strike[s] the deeper chords" of Seven Samurai. [8] Tom Mes of Film Comment said the film "culminates in a riveting, ingeniously plotted, and inventively shot 45-minute battle scene that few contemporary Japanese directors besides ...
This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.
Actors playing samurai and ronin at Kyoto's Eigamura film studio. Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, [1] denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of jidaigeki, which equates ...
The plot of Seven Samurai was re-worked for The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983), an Italian sword-and-sandal film. The 2004 video game Seven Samurai 20XX is a re-telling of Seven Samurai in a futuristic setting. The steampunk anime series Samurai 7 (2004) is based on Seven Samurai.