09-05-2025, 11:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2025, 12:08 AM by Drunk Monk.)
Uzumasa is an area where many jidaigeki films where made (according to this movie). I found it after watching A Samurai in Time ( https://brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/...p?tid=8555 ) because that was dedicated to Seizō Fukumoto and he stars in this as an aging kirareyaku getting pushed out by young studio runners. It’s his only leading role and he allegedly has been killed 50K times on screen.
It’s a bittersweet story of aging artists and dying genres. Fukumoto takes on an ingenue student who wants to preserve the old school choreo - the series she’s on as a stuntwoman uses cgi swords so the actors all get katanas with only a foot of blade paints green screen green.
The fights are movie fights and training fights, all of which are done well. The astonishing thing is that Fukumoto can still move astonishingly well. He brings a veracity and veritas to the role. His fights and training sequences are solid, reflecting years of experience. His young starlet pupil also moves well and isn’t a reflection of the secret desire of all old sword masters to get a young beautiful student chick that practices hard.
It’s an enjoyable tale that hits too close to home in my 60s (Fukumoto is in his 70s while making this film). D00M recommended.
Seen
here:
It’s a bittersweet story of aging artists and dying genres. Fukumoto takes on an ingenue student who wants to preserve the old school choreo - the series she’s on as a stuntwoman uses cgi swords so the actors all get katanas with only a foot of blade paints green screen green.
The fights are movie fights and training fights, all of which are done well. The astonishing thing is that Fukumoto can still move astonishingly well. He brings a veracity and veritas to the role. His fights and training sequences are solid, reflecting years of experience. His young starlet pupil also moves well and isn’t a reflection of the secret desire of all old sword masters to get a young beautiful student chick that practices hard.
It’s an enjoyable tale that hits too close to home in my 60s (Fukumoto is in his 70s while making this film). D00M recommended.
Seen
here:
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