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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

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