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KILL! |
Original Title: Kiru Company: Toho Company Production Year: 1968 Format: 16:9 Widescreen - Black / White - 114 mins - English Subtitles Cast: NAKADAI Tatsuya, TAKAHASHI Etsushi, KUBO Naoko, KOYAMA Shigeru Directed by: OKAMOTO Kihachi Where to Buy: www.amazon.com |
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In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, Kill! playfully tweaks samurai film convention, borrowing elements from established chanbara classics and seasoning them with a little Italian western. |
