rainmaker
20-06-2007, 03:14 AM
So I watched this movie yesterday. Yes, I purchased this from playasia.com and paid $41.00. Not cheap...
I watched this with my wife. Very typical Japanese samurai movie. Director wanted show the life of samurai so it contains pretty much everything including his job(the samurai hated), life style(life with his wife and family), status of samurai during this period, agony over his pride and family, and little bit of action...
If you want some action packed sword fighting movie, this is not for you. If you want to relax and want to know the lifestyle of samurai, it is pretty well made movie.
I watched all three Samurai movies, The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and now Bushi no Ichibun. They are very similar story lines...
They are all about poor Samurai, struggle with family but have problem with authority.
Making of Bushi no Ichibun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4GolG_Uh4
The samurai movie Bushi no Ichibun starring Kimura Takuya starts in Japan on December 1st, 2006.
This movie is the third in the trilogy by director Yamada Yoji, following Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai) in 2002 and Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade) in 2004. Tasogare Seibei is certainly a must rent, the best movie I have seen in a long time and everything a period samurai movie ought to be. Yamada Yoji is also famous for his long running Tora-san movies, that came out twice a year, in summer and fall, from 1969 to 1996. As is true of the other two movies in this series, Bushi no Ichibun is based on a short story by the period writer Fujisawa Shuhei. A collection of his short stories has been published in English as The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales.
In Bushi no Ichibun, Kimura plays Mimura Shinnojo, a samurai who is blinded by poison when serving as a food-taster for his lord. Due to the suggestions of his irresponsible relatives, his wife seeks a patron, Shimada Toyo, for financial support in maintaining their household. But, will his wife's sacrifice cause Shinnoji to lose his honor, or give him an opportunity to prove it?
I watched this with my wife. Very typical Japanese samurai movie. Director wanted show the life of samurai so it contains pretty much everything including his job(the samurai hated), life style(life with his wife and family), status of samurai during this period, agony over his pride and family, and little bit of action...
If you want some action packed sword fighting movie, this is not for you. If you want to relax and want to know the lifestyle of samurai, it is pretty well made movie.
I watched all three Samurai movies, The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and now Bushi no Ichibun. They are very similar story lines...
They are all about poor Samurai, struggle with family but have problem with authority.
Making of Bushi no Ichibun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4GolG_Uh4
The samurai movie Bushi no Ichibun starring Kimura Takuya starts in Japan on December 1st, 2006.
This movie is the third in the trilogy by director Yamada Yoji, following Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai) in 2002 and Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade) in 2004. Tasogare Seibei is certainly a must rent, the best movie I have seen in a long time and everything a period samurai movie ought to be. Yamada Yoji is also famous for his long running Tora-san movies, that came out twice a year, in summer and fall, from 1969 to 1996. As is true of the other two movies in this series, Bushi no Ichibun is based on a short story by the period writer Fujisawa Shuhei. A collection of his short stories has been published in English as The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales.
In Bushi no Ichibun, Kimura plays Mimura Shinnojo, a samurai who is blinded by poison when serving as a food-taster for his lord. Due to the suggestions of his irresponsible relatives, his wife seeks a patron, Shimada Toyo, for financial support in maintaining their household. But, will his wife's sacrifice cause Shinnoji to lose his honor, or give him an opportunity to prove it?