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Kurosawa Redux
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:29 pm
by enderzero
Somwhat old news, but I just read that Yoshimitsu Morita, director of black comedy
The Family Game has signed on to direct a remake of Kurosawa's
Sanjuro. Apparently, the filmmakers are going so far as to shoot using the original Ryuzo Kikushima screenplay (
see twitch article). If nothing else it will be interesting to see a different director's take on the same source material - but Morita has some pretty big sandals to fill.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:09 am
by spidermonkey
Hmm....
Do you suppose he'll try Yojimbo next?
Not that that hasn't been done 3 or 4 times already, but Sanjuro was kind of a prequel...
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:45 pm
by Goemon
I saw a few scenes from this several weeks ago on
TV here and was thoroughly unimpressed with Yuji Oda in the title role. Imagine if they did a remake of Conan the Destroyer, but cast Freddie Prinze Jr in the title role. That's about the same.
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:26 am
by spidermonkey
I wouldn't really expect anyone to be able to live up to Mifune, but that was worse than I imagined.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:33 pm
by Goemon
Mifune is the balls.