Fighting scenes


Maybe I am biased, since Kurosawa is my fav director, but I find his (samurai) fighting scenes some of the best ever made - especially since the recent invasion of the wire-fighting & too choreographed-to-look-real scenes in the newly released movies.

I wonder if his actors took Kendo lessons to prepare particularly for this movie/the next ones, or practiced regularly.


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Actually, the main problem I had with the movie was the long fighting scenes during the second part, they bored me...

I don't mean to say that the fighting scenes could be better, the problem is that I don't like action scenes in movies, only if they're short can I appreciate them

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then , there could be 2 situations:
1. you enjoyed the first part, then you say you got "bored"; but it could be that you got uncomfortable, because of the claustrophobic effect the thieves attack creates (the good guys here don't have the upper hand, and the villagers don't help too much)

2. the first part left you lukewarm, then you got bored; but it could be you were not too interested in the first place. Or you just don't like war movies :o)

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It seems these Message Boards will be forever deleted by his majesty IMDb, without any regard to its mere users.
Nice to be talking to you here, the most constructive part of a film page...
(the Review part was the worst, with all the too many ego-filled, pretentious "reviews")

...and I thought 2016 was an awful year...

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The wire-fighting/choreography that we have become familiar with in recent years actually has a long tradition in another branch of Asian cinema: Hong Kong kung fu films. It is deliberately meant to look unreal, superhuman, and fantastic.

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