ummm, a bit overexcited maybe?
Don't think so.
The Beaver
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/Reviews/47_ronin.htm liked it a lot too:
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Most film aficionados outgrow discussions of the "greatest films of all time." Not me. For more than a decade I've had three favorites. Stan Brakhage's Arabics, a series of abstract silent films of perpetually shifting colors and shapes and spaces, is one; another is Roberto Rossellini's mystical, expansive personal documentary India. And the third is Kenji Mizoguchi's two-part, four-hour Genroku Chushingura (usually translated as "The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era")..."
It's not even the greatest film ever with the title, "Chushingura"
How do you mean?
It is not really a samurai flick pers se, it transcends the genre. This film touched me greatly.
It's perhaps a little silly to stick one's head out saying that
this is the greatest films ever considering what there is out there, but hey, it's only for fun. But I stick with my verdict. No.2, by the way, is Kobayashi's "
Harakiri"
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview3/harakiri.htm . And yes, Kurosawa is right up there too at the top of my list. A list which may, of course, change as I continue to watch more/other movies.
I take it you have seen the film in question?
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mac_alain
17 years ago
Well put, conductor71-1.
Shochiku has recently restore the film using digital tools.
Where did you hear about this?
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pope_hentai-1
17 years ago
http://www.shochiku.co.jp/video/japanese/ke/dvd/db0004.html
well, this is what shochiku has online
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mac_alain
17 years ago
well, this is what shochiku has online
Interesting. Very. If I interpret the Babelfish translation correctly, it should be out now. Official cost $50. I shall have to investigate this. I wonder if it has English subs.
Thanks for the link, pope_hentai-1.
The master Mizokuchi Kenji work of the world where it follows to Ozu and the black 澤 finally DVD conversion!
4 corporations (the Shochiku Co., Ltd. Kadokawa herald movie Toho Co., Ltd. & Kinokuniya Company Ltd.) joint DVD sale commemoration
Applicant everyone poster set ("浪 bloom sad song" "rainy month story" "Musashino lady" "Yukio human plan") present campaign execution
< Prize winning >
* 19th (1942) cinema ten-day report best ten 7th rank
Rear volume: 4 minute missing than first open time
Only rear volume + A23
* The years when the film basic plate is long we have elapsed, because the part original basic plate has missed, there is an ugly place. Beforehand acknowledgement.
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kerpan
17 years ago
No English subs on the Shochiku Mizoguchi DVD releases.
MEK
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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mac_alain
17 years ago
No English subs on the Shochiku Mizoguchi DVD releases.
WHY NOT, SHOCHIKU? I hope they heard me
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17 years ago
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mac_alain
16 years ago
Lke you really need subtitles to enjoy this.
Are you just being highminded or do you perhaps speak Japanese?
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