‘Unforgiven’ Being Remade as Samurai
Sep. 11th, 2016 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gravityeyelidsvia http://ift.tt/2cnQl42:‘Unforgiven’ Being Remade as Samurai Film Starring Ken Watanabe:
krakenpocalypse:
priscellie:
The perfect antidote to the Ghost In The Shell news! Hope it gets an American release. Your move, Hollywood.
I think this is pretty fitting, since cowboy movies have been cribbing from Japanese samurai film for a long time now. Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo got a remake via A Fistful of Dollars, and The Hidden Fortress helped inspire George Lucas to create Star Wars. (Even the word “Jedi” is derived from the “jidai geki” genre of Japanese film– an appropriate name for a group space samurai.)
krakenpocalypse:
priscellie:
The perfect antidote to the Ghost In The Shell news! Hope it gets an American release. Your move, Hollywood.
I think this is pretty fitting, since cowboy movies have been cribbing from Japanese samurai film for a long time now. Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo got a remake via A Fistful of Dollars, and The Hidden Fortress helped inspire George Lucas to create Star Wars. (Even the word “Jedi” is derived from the “jidai geki” genre of Japanese film– an appropriate name for a group space samurai.)
