What Samurai films would you like to see?

[oaxaca]

Tartan put out some truly incredible modern Samurai epics like TWILIGHT SAMURAI, WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN and THE HIDDEN BLADE. I'd love to see these on blu ray!

Also any Kurosawa and Yamada output on blu.

Perhaps these would be more suitable to ArrowVideo than ArrowDrome.

[drees5761]

The original Lone Wolf and Cub film series on Blu ray would be amazing....

[Djangooo]

Lady Snowblood
Sex & Fury
Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Samurai/Horror) [Nakagawa version]
Clan of the Forgotten Eight
Zatoichi (all of them)
Sleepy Eyes of Death
Samurai Wolf 1 + 2 (or any Hideo Gosha)
Lone Wolf and Cub (Releasing Shogun Assassin instead of the original series is ridiculous to me).


I would only buy these on Blu Ray though as I own them all already outside of Yotsuya.

Some straight up pinky violence stuff would be cool too. School of the Holy Beast especially.

[Drakie79]

I greatly agree with the above suggestions!!

[Cap. Vic RobotPants M.D.]

Agree with some of the other posters on here that it's got to be something a little sleazy. No way would we get anything like Kurosawa on ArrowDrome, and who would want that anyway? Gotta be something more vile. Hopefully it's some titles that I had never heard about.

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by Djangooo

Lady Snowblood
Sex & Fury
Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Samurai/Horror) [Nakagawa version]
Clan of the Forgotten Eight
Zatoichi (all of them)
Sleepy Eyes of Death
Samurai Wolf 1 + 2 (or any Hideo Gosha)
Lone Wolf and Cub (Releasing Shogun Assassin instead of the original series is ridiculous to me).


I would only buy these on Blu Ray though as I own them all already outside of Yotsuya.

Some straight up pinky violence stuff would be cool too. School of the Holy Beast especially.

I too would love to see more Pinky Violence films released on DVD. I'm not sure that I like any genre of film more than those lovely sleaze-fests!

As for seeing films such as those mentioned released on Blu-ray, especially here in the UK, I really can't see that happening. Simple economics would dictate that such releases would be loss-making exercises as far as I can see.

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by Cap. Vic RobotPants M.D.

Agree with some of the other posters on here that it's got to be something a little sleazy. No way would we get anything like Kurosawa on ArrowDrome, and who would want that anyway? Gotta be something more vile. Hopefully it's some titles that I had never heard about.

The more vile the better, although I'm not so sure that the state censor would agree with us!

[TsuiHark]

It's not a Samurai movie per se, althouth the setting is similar, but I would love to see a DVD edition of Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man (Tai Katô, 1964). It's a pure gem of a movie. Think Fukasaku's Street Mobster meets Okamoto's The Sword of Doom. The movie has never been released on home video worldwide as far as I know (and I've looked extensively, it doesn't even exist in Japan) and no copies are circulating the web. As far as I know, the movie has only been shown a handful of time in the past 20 years and only two times that I'm sure of : in the 90s, the Japan foundation circulated a copy through various Cinematheques (Paris, Rome, LA, ...) for a worldwide Tai Kato retrospective, and very recently, the movie was shown in Paris at the Japan Foundation for a Misumi/Kato retrospective (that's where I saw it). Their copy is in really good shape and would require little to no remastering. English Subs were burnt-in, but very readable from my recollection. I contacted several French distributors already, but most are leaving the Asian market completely (Wild Side refocused on the US and HK Video have closed shop for good) and others are unwilling to bet on an unknown movie (basically they'd rather distribute renowned directors such as Gosha than take a chance). I hope Arrow Drome will be interested.

Just to give you an idea of the movie : The main protagonist, Tatsu, has severe anger issues (he yells at and fights with just about everyone, even at the risk of his own life, that is, even when bare-handed and faced by 20 angry mobsters with guns). One day a beautiful rich girl gets into his rickshaw. He antagonises her by being his own aggressive self, and when she dares respond. he trows her, along with his rickshaw, over a bridge and into the river. Simple.as.that. And that's just one of the many crazy things you'll see him do. But the movie is not pure comedy, it blends comedy and tragedy with an ease I had seldom seen before. I'm dying to see it again just thinking about it.

[g053584398]

Originally Posted by TsuiHark

It's not a Samurai movie per se, althouth the setting is similar, but I would love to see a DVD edition of Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man (Tai Katô, 1964). It's a pure gem of a movie. Think Fukasaku's Street Mobster meets Okamoto's The Sword of Doom. The movie has never been released on home video worldwide as far as I know (and I've looked extensively, it doesn't even exist in Japan) and no copies are circulating the web. As far as I know, the movie has only been shown a handful of time in the past 20 years and only two times that I'm sure of : in the 90s, the Japan foundation circulated a copy through various Cinematheques (Paris, Rome, LA, ...) for a worldwide Tai Kato retrospective, and very recently, the movie was shown in Paris at the Japan Foundation for a Misumi/Kato retrospective (that's where I saw it). Their copy is in really good shape and would require little to no remastering. English Subs were burnt-in, but very readable from my recollection. I contacted several French distributors already, but most are leaving the Asian market completely (Wild Side refocused on the US and HK Video have closed shop for good) and others are unwilling to bet on an unknown movie (basically they'd rather distribute renowned directors such as Gosha than take a chance). I hope Arrow Drome will be interested.

Just to give you an idea of the movie : The main protagonist, Tatsu, has severe anger issues (he yells at and fights with just about everyone, even at the risk of his own life, that is, even when bare-handed and faced by 20 angry mobsters with guns). One day a beautiful rich girl gets into his rickshaw. He antagonises her by being his own aggressive self, and when she dares respond. he trows her, along with his rickshaw, over a bridge and into the river. Simple.as.that. And that's just one of the many crazy things you'll see him do. But the movie is not pure comedy, it blends comedy and tragedy with an ease I had seldom seen before. I'm dying to see it again just thinking about it.

That sounds like a very interesting film.

[TsuiHark]

It is. It really is. I saw it 6 months ago and I can't stop thinking about it. The first thing I did after the screening was run home to buy it on DVD, but no luck there. I wish more people could see this gem.