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‘Kanako’ pits esteemed actor against a lot of pointless gore

January 22, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “The World of Kanako” begins with a Christmas celebration or, to be more precise, several Christmas celebrations. Snow falls slowly. Bright lights twinkle in the night. And young people, at least, dance together in a club, done up in their immaculate fashions. Intercut with this, though, is cursing, hissing, […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2016, Akihiro Fujishima, Director Tetsuya Nakashima, Grand Illusion Cinema, James Bond, Juzo Itami, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Koji Yakusho, Kojji Yakusho, Masayuki Suko, New York Asian Film Festival, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Shohei Imamura, Takashi Miike, University District, Vol 35 No 4 | January 23 - January 29, japan

Finishing ‘Eleven Samurai’

May 10, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Director Eiichi Kudo’s “Eleven Samurai” (1966) completes his gritty, visually rich samurai trilogy. It features elements derived from the two earlier films, “13 Assassins” (1963) and “The Great Killing” (1964), but introduces additional elements, making the film worthy of its brethren.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2013, Actor Nishimura, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, DVD, Director Eiichi Kudo, Eleven Samurai, Great Killing, Kaneo Ikegami, Kantaro Suga, Kei Tasaka, Lord Nariatsu, Noribumi Suzuki, Northwest Asian Weekly, Takeo Kunihiro, Vol 32 No 20 | May 11 - May 17

The Great Killing

May 3, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “Warning,” reads the back of the DVD box for “The Great Killing.” “Contains violence, strategy.” All three of Eiichi Kudo’s groundbreaking samurai films (“13 Assassins” featured last week and “Eleven Samurai” to come shortly) contain that same warning.  All three do indeed contain violence and strategy as advertised, but […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2013, Andrew Hamlin, DVD, Eiichi Kudo, Eleven Samurai, Jack Ruby, Kotaro Satomi, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lord Saki Ryutaro Otomo, Northwest Asian Weekly, Osamu Furuya, Vol 32 No 19 | May 4 - May 10, japan

Following the ‘13 Assassins’

April 26, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When director Eiichi Kudo went into pre-production for his 1963 samurai film “13 Assassins,” he had no way of knowing that he would help pioneer a new age in samurai cinema.  Kudo worked with screenwriter Kaneo Ikegami, who’d written another film, “Seventeen Ninja,” released earlier that same year, and […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2010, 2013, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Hamlin, DVD, Eiichi Kudo, Eleven Samurai, Jubei Suzuki, Kinema Jumpo Japanese, Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, North America, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seventeen Ninja, Shinzaemon Chiezo Kataoka, Shudan Jidaigeki, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3

The 10 best Asian films of the year

December 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly 2011 gave us a wide variety of Asian cinema, from sweeping historical epics to smaller, more human-scaled studies of life. Seek out the following films wherever you can. They are ranked in order of excellence.

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2012, Chris Cooper, Chuan Lu, Japanese Army, Joel Torre, John Sayles, Khmer Rouge, Mike Ott, Northwest Asian Weekly, Nuon Chea, Philippines, Rio Locsin, Seattle, Takayuki Yamada, Thet Sambath, Vol 31 No 1 | December 31 - January 6, Wei Fa, Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao

In “13 Assassins,” personalities as interesting as the action scenes

May 19, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“13 Assassins,” the new historical samurai epic from notable Japanese director Takashi Miike, opens with a samurai warrior committing hara-kiri, or ritual suicide.

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 13 Assassins, 2011, Andrew Hamlin, Lord Naritsugu, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Takashi Miike, University District, Varsity Theatre, Vol 30 No 21 | May 21 - May 27

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