Comments on: Red Beard (Akahige) by Akira Kurosawa

By: Philip Seyfi

Philip Seyfi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:14:25 +0000

The Magnificent Seven was based on the Seven Samurais, Star Wars was based on The Hidden Fortress, the Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) was based on Yojimbo… and that’s only to name the fews. Nearly all Kurosawa’s film were remade at least once.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:50:35 +0000

You know, Bruce Willis Last Man Standing was based on Yojimbo I hear.

By: Tornadoes28

Tornadoes28 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:10:07 +0000

The Seven Samurai was remade in America called The Magnificent Seven. I’m surprised the story of the 47 Ronin has not been remade into something in the United States.

By: AllNippon

AllNippon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:30:29 +0000

I’m not completely surprised that even (younger) Japanese people don’t know Kurosawa’s movies. I haven’t watched any of my countries classic movies or read any of the great classic books. That said, Kurosawa’s movies are a treasure which deserves a lot more attention than 99% of the “movies” that are made in Hollywood. Sadly, American movies (and music) dominate most of the western countries and people don’t bother to look beyond. Fast food generation, easily satisfied.

Recently watched Kagemusha again, good movie too!

By: Tornadoes28

Tornadoes28 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:13:17 +0000

I’ve been watching a lot of samurai movies recently, especially the classic chanbara sword fighting flicks. My favorite are the Lone Wolf and Cub movies. I recently watched all six of them.