Kurosawa fans

robbykills · Post by **robbykills** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 23:56 -0700

I know it seems kinda sketchy since I just joined (see my other thread) but I thought some of you might be interested in this:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dl ... category0=

while not all having perfect translation are pretty awesome, you can win them for a penny (because shipping is around $35) but I was pleasantly surprised when I got mine. Though I said the translation can be kind of off the meaning is clear. I think the copy of Rashomon is also the critierion version.

hakucho · Post by **hakucho** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:59 -0700

Apparently there is also an anime re-interpretation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai...called "Samurai 7" =/

robbykills · Post by **robbykills** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 19:28 -0700

hmmm I dunno. But I remember seeing they made a Seven Samurai game and I figured it might work, turns out its some piece of crap that takes place in the future and isn't fun to play. Apparently someone from his estate approved it too. Lame.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 22:03 -0700

hakucho wrote:Apparently there is also an anime re-interpretation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai...called "Samurai 7" =/

robbykills wrote:hmmm I dunno. But I remember seeing they made a Seven Samurai game and I figured it might work, turns out its some piece of crap that takes place in the future and isn't fun to play. Apparently someone from his estate approved it too. Lame.

Probably based on the Samurai 7 anime... it is set in the future and a review I once read of it said it was pretty bad, compared to the original movie.

Post by **Maka** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:56 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Probably based on the Samurai 7 anime... it is set in the future and a review I once read of it said it was pretty bad, compared to the original movie.

I haven't seen the anime, but according to DVDTalk.com (I know, they are just an industry tool to sell dvds) it is not that bad:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=17572

It's reported that the Samurai 7 TV series cost around $8 million to make. Not as much as it cost to make Akira, but anime technology has come a long way since 1988.

Peace,

maka

hakucho · Post by **hakucho** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 14:37 -0700

I wonder what Kurosawa-san would have made of it...

I remember Lone Wolf and Cub 2000 (or something) from Dark Horse, which was also set in the future. I didn't really like it, since it felt rather cliched and unimaginative.