In the 1960s, when the Japanese film industry was at the beginning of a fundamental change structure-wise and regarding the stories out on screen, so were the traditional themes, characters and virtues represented by them. However, even the most famous figure of the samurai-genre, Akira Kurosawa, nearly always kept a certain skepticism towards the warrior code, the bushido, and the way it was put into practice, making films such as “Seven Samurai” or “Rashomon” also stories about human weakness and treachery as they are studies about the nature of the bushido, who it kept those with power in their place. Nevertheless, it was not until the 1960s when the tone and the design of the genre would fundamentally change, a reflection of the European version of the western in some way, with directors such as Hideo Gosha delivering their brand of chambara and yakuza films with works like “Three Outlaw Samurai”. Interestingly,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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