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You need to add “Kill” to your list of Bushido movies, its a great film.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a question I have. About 5 years ago I watched my first old samurai movie, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called, who it was by, or the majority of what happened. Since then I’ve watched many more movies so i occassionally think I’ve remembered something but turns out it was something else. I’m fairly sure it wasn’t a kurusawa movie, i think we discovered him after the movie I’m after. I have half a feeling that the director either didnt make many, or even any other movies in this genre.

What I can say is it was a slow burner. Not a great deal of action but a quality movie which pulled you in and had you hooked before you knew it. By the end, the slower start and perhaps slower pace throughout made sense and you wouldn’t want it any other way.

It is filmed in b&w, and centered around one samurai (although there may be a few other key players, I don’t think it had a very large cast). I remember a scene towards the end, of him sat outside a hut, I think it was a womans who he had return to, either through obligation or love. It was alone, very dusty underfoot and on a slight hill.

There is a possibility he was a ronin, but the story was a stripped down study, there was very little romantising of the samurai way of life.

So other than being a needle in a haystack, any ideas?

Many thanks Bruce for your reply, I’m not sure that it’s the one but I’m about to watch it so I will let you know!

Rhi

dear admin could you help me with this movie…i search it but i can’t find it…
actually i dont remember all the scene…
this film is a battle beetwen two last ninja village whom been battle for many years, the japanese goverment sence ninja dont fit anymore in that era…so the goverment intend to erase’em… the head chief of the village have an eyes like sharingan and the other have eyes like reinegan this both ninjas falling in love evendo the village is hate each other…
i remember the elder of the village cannot die because he have worm and poison in all over their body…the last thing i remember bout this movie is the women who got poison eye(like reinegan) is the last ninja alive but she got blind…
sorry if my english is bad…
help me please…
thanks very much…

Hey there George,

I remember a BW movie with Mifune as a ronin in a forrest setting. I think it was Rashomon… Check that one out.

can’t remember name, just remember huge battle scene at end. Want to say between the armies of Tokugawa and ? one side red, other side black i think. whole squad of female lancers charges in and you see one lone horse ride out. Been trying to find this for years with no luck. Please help.

Hey aj! That definitely sounds like “Ran”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/

hello admin

a few years a go, i watched this movie about a samurai father. he has this daughter whom he has to kill because she bore the child of this demon who was supposed to be reborn (he has this spider mark on his head). this is already kind of a curse hand down.

could you please help me find this movie?

Greetings:

There are two movies that should be added to your site:

Semishigure : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQLBp29KVRM

Hana yori mo naho : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAPnbgdPNS0

Owl’s castle : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su_k0GxWBtg (great Ninja movie)

Hi There

Another request for a long forgotten film ! The premise was that this young sword master started life as a professional conman – who pretended to be a great master and challenged real sword masters to duels, but never had any intention of drawing his sword. As the conman met a real hero, the hero – being unable to see any intention in the conmans eyes – assumed the conman was the greatest swordsman ever, and went on to adopt him as his protege. Lots of rescuing villages and ladies followed !

I think it’s a later film (in colour and perhaps the last 20 years)

Any thoughts please?!

Thanks

Greetings:

also, this modern ninja movie features a war
between two rival ninja clans, but the two heads
of the tribe fall in love with one another?! The SFX
are cool and lady ninjas are hot!!

Hi aj—I believe the movie you’re referring to is Heaven and Earth, which isn’t a Kurosawa movie but does remind one of Kagamusha….

Martin, the movie you’re describing reminds me a lot of After the Rain–which was written by Kurosawa but he handed the directing reins to his longtime assistant director who did it after the master’s death.

The sensei who is first challenged then takes the thief as his protege is played by the great Tatsuya Nakadai.