Haruki Kadokawa's Heaven and Earth (1990)

[Jet_Jaguar]

Has anyone here ever seen a 1990 samurai movie called Heaven and Earth? (Not to be confused with the Oliver Stone movie of the same name from a few years later or with a Chinese movie called Warriors of Heaven and Earth.) I remember catching the tail end of it on TNT during the early AM years ago, and it's always frustrated me a little that I couldn't find a copy of it anywhere. It's directed by Haruki Kadokawa, who's known more as a big-shot producer than as a director, and I believe it was largely filmed in Canada (the Wikipedia entry says that lots of the extras were wearing historically inaccurate face masks to disguise the fact that they weren't Japanese).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x64xMOywqZY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_and ... 90_film%29

[Steve Hubbell]

I've seen it, one of the local video stores had it on tape. I posted a message here about it and some other samurai films which I watched around the same time, but I do not know if the posts are still around.

[Stan Sakai]

I have it in my collection as a VHS tape. The story climaxes with a fight between Takeda Shingen and Kagetora, their only encounter. I haven't seen it in years, but it is enjoyable, though a bit slow in places, like many historical epics.

It was like watching part of a larger movie, in that nothing is really resolved at the end. A voice over narrates what happens later.

[goandal]

I need to add that onto my Netflix.

[Gallennon]

I remember that. It was an awesome film, I have been trying to find it. My VHS was copied over which I discovered years ago when I tried to use it at a Japanese culture booth the anime club I was part of was running at our college. But it was such a great film. It was the second live action Japanese film I had seen outside of Kurosawa back when i was in high school. Wish I could find a DVD copy of it.