Miike and remakes

I'm pretty ambiguous about Takeshi Miike's recent remakes of classic Japanese movies. There's nothing wrong with them as standalone films, but it's impossible to watch "Death of a Samurai" without comparing every scene to Kobayashi's original.

I wrote a blog about this for anyone who's interested: https://screenreadings.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/a-tale-of-two-suicides /