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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Shane Shane is a legendary name in the history of Westerns, so I had to see it. It took me a while to get into it though. Jean Arthur bored me here actually and I usually get annoyed by prominent kids in movie like this sometimes. Maybe I just don't like kids and this is my personal issue. But I get annoyed with sweet and precocious kids in films. I'm actually more amused and even empathetic to kids in movies that are more dim and pathetic. Take the fat kid in Bad Santa or any of the kids in Welcome to the Dollhouse for instance. Anyways I know this was a totally different kind of movie from a different era, but I just wanted to express that. Shane became more interesting to me as it went along. I was glad when Elisha Cook Jr. show "
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Tokyo Drifter
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"I really wanted to be impressed by this movie, and I was, in a sense. The color is fantastic, and the cinematography is nothing to sneeze at either. It even had what must have been some very cool gunfights for its time. Unfortunately the narrative itself was too hard to follow. Call me racist, but I had trouble differentiating the various bosses from each other due to the similarity of their names to my western ear. This left the majority of dialogue fairly difficult to comprehend. I wish I had seen this movie before being exposed to some of the better handgun-based action movies made since, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Desperado, etc. Even The Wild Bunch could be included in that category. "
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"Unless you’re a fan of cult Japanese film, chances are you don’t know who Seijun Suzuki is. One way to describe him would be a studio hack director for Nikkatsu who primarily worked in the 60’s. You’d be just as justified in describing his as an auteur working within a genre to find his niche. Or even as a visual maverick whose flare for the garish has left an indelible mark on cinema. Yes you could refer to him as all those things and more, but you’d be pompous. What’s worse is that you’d be doing a disservice to the man and his films. So we’re going to take a more humanist look at one of the best directors Japan has ever produced. To understand Seijun Suzuki’s place in film you have to understand how the Japanese film industry operated for the better part of the last century. The studios in Japan signed directors, actors, lighting technicians, and everybody else who worked in movies, to contracts obligating them to ... "
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