06-05-2014, 07:08 PM
I've been itchy for my Ichi fix.
#20 was the aforementioned Z vs. Yojimbo, which skipped backwards in time for some reason, but I'm not going to question the order of the mighty Criterion on Hulu+.
Fire Festival continues the versus theme featuring the Sword of Doom himself, the always psychotic Tatsuya Nakadai. Like Godzilla vs. Mothra/Ghidora/King Kong/Mechagodzilla/Smog Monster/ad nauseum, Ichi is facing off against the top cinematic warriors of his day. The next one is Z vs. the One-Armed Swordsman, a classic Kung Fu hero, and a film that I remember.
Fire Festival also pits Ichi against a blind uber boss, which makes for a great game of blind Go that is as good as a swordfight. There's also young sidekick that's a tad fay. Well, more than a tad. He wears eyeshadow and looks like he fell off a K-pop boy bandwagon. His character has the Pinocchio problem 'I wanna be a real boy' or 'man' as he says in the film, but really, he'd be satisfied with just boy as he is so fem. This is also the first film that shows female nipples, rather exploitively at that. There's a surreal flashback sequence that is reminiscent of Kurosawa's DoDesKaDen. The swordfights are good, as always, with Nakadai added an extended scene of slaughter, but this one leans more to Ichitrix, scenes like a group of bamboo spearmen notice that their poles are split, and then keel over split themselves. It's funny stuff, classic Ichi.
#20 was the aforementioned Z vs. Yojimbo, which skipped backwards in time for some reason, but I'm not going to question the order of the mighty Criterion on Hulu+.
Fire Festival continues the versus theme featuring the Sword of Doom himself, the always psychotic Tatsuya Nakadai. Like Godzilla vs. Mothra/Ghidora/King Kong/Mechagodzilla/Smog Monster/ad nauseum, Ichi is facing off against the top cinematic warriors of his day. The next one is Z vs. the One-Armed Swordsman, a classic Kung Fu hero, and a film that I remember.
Fire Festival also pits Ichi against a blind uber boss, which makes for a great game of blind Go that is as good as a swordfight. There's also young sidekick that's a tad fay. Well, more than a tad. He wears eyeshadow and looks like he fell off a K-pop boy bandwagon. His character has the Pinocchio problem 'I wanna be a real boy' or 'man' as he says in the film, but really, he'd be satisfied with just boy as he is so fem. This is also the first film that shows female nipples, rather exploitively at that. There's a surreal flashback sequence that is reminiscent of Kurosawa's DoDesKaDen. The swordfights are good, as always, with Nakadai added an extended scene of slaughter, but this one leans more to Ichitrix, scenes like a group of bamboo spearmen notice that their poles are split, and then keel over split themselves. It's funny stuff, classic Ichi.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse