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in other accounts oishi is shown playing the drunk to put kira s people off the scent here we get none of that he remains sober throughout though he does fall for a young woman karu who becomes his love interest apparently genuine after his wife goes away as the cover story that oishi has given in to drunkenness is such a key element in other versions its absence here seems peculiar equally peculiar is oishi s attack on kira in other versions kira is captured and given the choice of committing seppuku but he cannot bring himself to do it here oishi attacks him runs him through and then cuts off his head in fact he attacks him as kira seems on the point of revealing something about the incident though it ultimately doesn t matter why asano attacked kira one would think that oishi who is so careful about the clan s finances would want to know to settle the books the film ends with the death of kira we get no victory parade but a text scroll indicating what will happen from this point on one of the things i thought as i was watching this film was that the portrayal of oishi here had something of clint eastwood s stoic presence and i later learned that takakura has the nickname of the japanese clint eastwood leave a comment silent and short chushingura posted in uncategorized on 6 july 2016 by bdnm chukon giretsu jitsuroku chushingura chushingura truth 1928 dir shozo makino watched on youtube go to https www youtube com watch v dbf3adtavpc to watch the film yourself i noticed that there were some versions of the story on youtube one that intrigued me was a silent version done in 1928 it is one of a few silent version japan was the last country to go to sound film in 1936 because japanese silent film houses employed benshi men who read the titles and provided dialogue and commentary in the image portions of the film these benshi were unionized and were very popular and as the sound quality of early sound films was often terrible japan held back preferring to keep the benshi employed and the audiences happy well i was intrigued by this version because it had no subtitles in other words all i was going to see were kanji titles and nothing to help me figure out the story so first i decided to wait and look at the silent version without help of titles only after i had seen a few versions of the story hoping that my familiarity would help me figure out what was going on and this particular version on youtube had a recorded benshi providing the narration commentary this was in japanese so it didn t help me with the specifics of the story but gave me some sense of what benshi added to the experience and i found i could follow the story which sped right along we have the insults of kira and the attack by asano and asano s seppuku and the reaction back at asano s castle in ako his wife and his brother horrified by what asano has done to the clan it had large assembly of retainers called to decide their next action with much animated back and forth between the two groups fight v surrender and follow the law it had oishi s pretended sink into drunkenness even the game of blind man s bluff he plays with the geisha girls that i had seen in the other films and it had the attack in the snow of kira s castle with the search lights apparently they made lanterns out of something like deep kettle drums coated with highly reflective material to serve as an earlier version of a floodlight to find the hidden kira in the castle i was amazed that i was able to figure out what as what only based on my familiarity with the story from other versions as i had no written or spoken clue i could use of course at a little more than 1 hour there was a lot to cover that short time was further shortened by extremely long title sequences before we get our first image we have about 5 minutes of text some of it no doubt credits over about a dozen title cards and then after a minute or so of visual we get another minute or so of title cards given that western titlles are kept to a minimum this came as something of a shock to me i was amused though by the titles of the characters when the characters were especially animated when asano attacks kira the script is tilted on its side about 45 degrees and the carefully drawn titles get all crazy looking in addition we have exclamation points and we have the benshi himself becoming shrill it was fun to watch and to listen to it was also fun to listen to the benshi do different voices as in the debate over whether to fight or not we get shrill voices pleading and gruff voices dismissing the opposing views i had no idea what they were saying but it was music to my ears leave a comment choo choo chushingura posted in uncategorized on 6 july 2016 by bdnm chushingura 47 samurai 1962 dir hiroshi inagaki w yuzo kayama asano hiroshi koizumi gengo tasuya mihashi horibe chusha ichikawa kira toshiro mifune tararaboshi kenji sahawa isogai hisaya ito oishi watched on dvd this film at 3 1 2 hours is roughly the length of mizoguchi s two film treatment of the story and it is broken into two parts blossom and snow the first part of the film which is about 2 hours long is roughly equivalent to mizoguchi s first film which runs less than 2 hours it covers the period from the hosting of the imperial envoys and asano s attack on kira through the rejection of the appeal to restore the house under lord daigaku asano s brother and the departure of oishi s wife and children which leaves him free to launch the attack that attack and its preparation take the last 1 1 2 hours of the film this film gives us a lot more detail than the other versions so far we learn that kira already knows asano and that he is angry at asano not only for not bribing him as was the expected practice but for not respecting his servants whom kira sent to get information about how asano had become so successful in harvesting salt the shogun s chamberlain is likewise surprised about asano s refusal to play ball and instructs kira to teach him a lesson kira is quite a greedy and vain fellow and does not take asano s refusal to bribe him and flatter him well though kira is as repulsive here as in other versions asano s intransigence here seems less like a virtue it s commendable that he doesn t want to engage in bribery which runs counter to the samurai code it s less understandable that asano demonstrates his contempt for kira and then expects kira to give him proper training in court etiquette kira gives mixed messages to asano first telling him there is no need to change any of the tatami mats and later a day before the envoys are to arrive informing him that such mats are unacceptable kira apparently is willing to let the mats go for a price which asano refuses to pay one of asano s retainers gengo is able to get all the mat makers in edo to work through the night to make the 500 mats required gengo also rises to the occasion in having two outfits ready for the formal ceremony so that the master can wear the right one at the right time kira keeps on insulting asano until asano explodes and attacks him much is made of the blood on the tatami mats and on the shogun himself the wounded kira bleeds over the shogun s silk robes but the investigation is handled in such a way that asano is not allowed an opportunity to explain his actions he refuses to admit temporary insanity but when one judge presses him for an answer the other forbids any further talk from asano and asano s seppuku is rushed forward the one judge is very much bothered by this and makes his displeasure known to oishi and the asano clan inagaki has some personal even humorous touches in the film we see that the shogun s pet dog has his own sedan chair and that the shogun a dog lover has posted directions that people are to rescue strays and that people who harm dogs will be punished by death and when gengo goes to the mat makers they state plainly that what he asks is impossible but gengo threatens to commit seppuku in their shop and they all get to work when one of asano s retainers a man who likes to drink is needed to help with the making of mats he knows how to do so one of the samurai horibe has to take his place in a drinking contest against mufune s tararaboshi a great big fellow with a big lance and a big appetite for drink tararaboshi reappears later when horibe has to beg off another drinking contest as they are getting ready to launch their attack it is unclear whether tararaboshi will put in with kira who s offered him money to become his bodyguard or not the gathering of the ronin on the night of the attack is given a fair amount of screen time it is a long process when the evening starts attack will commence at 4a there are only 30 present one by one others come but not before unnerving those who showed up on time one ronin is unable to show up because he has come down with pneumonia and is bedridden but he tries to make it to the gathering before collapsing in the snow while another cannot get away from his girl i appreciate inagaki s taking time to provide more details it helped me to get to know some of the different samurai better it is clear that some names are better known than others even in mizoguchi s version it is clear that certain of the 47 are more important than others as only about 5 or 6 get named but nothing further is told us we also get more of the public reaction in this film kira s neighbors agree not to intervene during the attack and instead to block any egress from kira s place into their houses the architect father of omino is quite willing to let isogai see his plans once he understands how they will be used the film does not end with the death of the samurai but with them parading through the streets of edo and crossing a bridge on their way back to ako where they will offer the head of kira to their master before surrendering to the authorities to await sentence and death in other words we do not see the death of the ronin only their triumph leave a comment loyalty thy name is ronin posted in uncategorized on 4 july 2016 by bdnm the loyal 47 ronin chushingura 1958 dir kunio watanabe w kazuo hasegawa oishi osamu takizawa kira raizo ichikawa asano this film was a lot more action packed than mizoguchi s version of the story and we got much more of the backstory except that this film didn t get much play in the west until the keanu reeves 47 ronin sparked interest in the story and resulted in the release of other versions of the story from japan there are more than 80 film versions supposedly i would swear it was done for western audiences we get much more information on kira and asano asano was given the task of providing hospitality for imperial envoys coming to edo tokyo as a rural lord he had no real experience in court etiquette and was assigned kira a more seasoned courtier to help him kira though hated asano other lords paid kira bribes to get on his good side and get good advice asano hated that practice and refused to play so kira does what he can to sabotage asano s efforts asano s people though are able mostly to cover for any faux pas which further infuriates kira still kira badmouths asano s efforts as that of a a hick daimyo whenever he can until finally kira can stand it no longer and he attacks kira which breach of the peace requires him to commit hara kiri he is willing to accept his punishment but we learn in this version that public opinion is upset that asano is singled out here the normal procedure is for both parties involved in such a disturbance must pay with their lives but kira is not punished it is made clear that kira has some political juice but that doesn t keep the people from grumbling in addition one of the judges overseeing the trial sees asano s nobility and kira s duplicity he raises his concerns that both need to suffer the same punishment but his concerns fall on deaf ears here we get to see asano s seppuku which is done openly in a garden another insult as he should be given some privacy here he composed a poem on his last day as we see the poem on the rice paper we also hear a singer singing the words the wind carries away the cherry blossoms yet i grieve more for the passing of spring we get more of the intrigue involved in the revenge as well oishi and other of the ronin are tailed by people on kira s side to see what they might do and they are attacked by them on occasion a woman rui is sent as a spy to watch oishi who is playing a drunk to allay suspicions she comes to realize that oishi is feigning as there is a nobility about him his drunkenness cannot hide but she comes to feel more sympathy for oishi and his cause than her boss and kira the attack on kira s castle lasts about 20 min of the film and is good action of course now so much of the battle scenes are choreographed fully and so this appears a bit rough but its roughness can be forgiven as probably being closer to what such a battle might look like this film ends immediately after the attack when the ronin parade through the streets of edo with kira s head in a sack to the cheers of the crowds they are stopped at one bridge and it looks like they may have to fight again but the official guarding the bridge explains why this path is blocked and offers another route out of town they are heading back to ako to lay the head on their lord s grave the film ends with them crossing the alternate bridge while heroic music plays this would lead you to think that having done their mission they are free to go that is not the case it does make for an heroic ending as they parade down the street leave a comment at long last two posted in uncategorized on 4 july 2016 by bdnm 47 ronin part ii 1942 dir kenji mizoguchi w chojuro kawarasaki oishi kazutoyo mimasu kira shotaro ichikawa horibe mieko takamine omino kanemon nakamura sukeimon kunitaro kawarazaki isogai when the japanese government put out the word they wanted a patriotic film to boost morale during wwii the task was given to kenji mizoguchi to make a film based on the story of the loyal 47 ronin of the genroku era mizoguchi rather than making an action film or at least a film similar to most war films that combine action of battles with a strong sense of camaraderie and some romance as the war is being fought ostensibly for the folks back home mizoguchi did not make that film there is camaraderie though we don t see it as concentrated as we might expect until near the end of part ii and there is some romance but there is little in the way of action this film sort of picks up where the last film left off i say sort of because the first film ended with a clear sense that the asano house would not be restored which gave oishi and the other 46 a green light to proceed in their revenge mission against kira had the asano house been restored under asano s brother the justification for revenge would be absent and would have muddied the waters when part ii begins oishi is still waiting to hear from the shogun 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