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Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) More at IMDbPro »Sanbiki no samurai (original title)
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Top Ten Movies Based on TV Shows
19 March 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten TV to Film Adaptations This weekend 21 Jump Street scored the top spot at the weekend box-office and Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall are busy preparing a sequel and after posting my review someone on Twitter told me one of the reasons they liked it was because it was a huge improvement compared to most TV-to-film adaptations. While I enjoyed it, I wasn't as excited over it as some people seem to be and I never even thought to compare it to other TV-to-film adaptations, especially considering a film needs to stand on its own, whether it's simply better than other films that tried to make the leap from the small screen to the silver screen is irrelevant. But it did get me to thinking... what are the best TV-to-film adaptations? So I started the process of compiling a list and while 21 Jump Street is a good flick, it »
- Brad Brevet
Three Outlaw Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
12 March 2012 | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw Samurai started as a television serial before Gosha took his chance as a filmmaker and adapted his show into a prequel of sorts. The film features Tetsuro Tanba, Isamu Nagato, and Mikijiro Hira reprising their roles from the show as three samurai who band together. The film reveals their motives for doing so and casts them in varying degrees along the scale of traditional heroism. Tanba, as the story’s main character, is quick to identify the social issue that has led a group of desperate farmers to rebel against the local lord, whereas his two counterparts need a bit more persuading. All of this occurs on land controlled by a dishonest bureaucrat whom, without really thinking of whether what the farmers has done is right or wrong, does whatever he must to rid himself of the problem and revert the matter to the status quo. »
- Lex Walker
Three Outlaw Samurai and Belle De Jour Criterion Blu-ray Reviews
2 March 2012 10:29 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
One of the great things about The Criterion Collection is that they often release masterpieces you’ve never heard of. Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw Samurai is a thoroughly entertaining film about three unlikely compatriots forced to band together against a feudal lord. And then there are the classics that everyone’s heard of. In this case it’s Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour, which stars Catherine Deneuve as a wife who fantasizes about being a prostitute. Both are on Blu-ray and our reviews follow after the jump. For Belle De Jour, Bunuel starts the film in a dream sequence where Séverine Serizy (Deneuve) is being whipped and tortured. She wakes up in bed with her husband and is frustrated that it was only a dream. A friend of the family mentions a house of ill repute, and Séverine is drawn to it, and so she becomess a prostitute »
- Andre Dellamorte
Blu-ray Review: Hideo Gosha’s Viscerally Entertaining ‘Three Outlaw Samurai’
28 February 2012 6:30 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Hideo Gosha’s spectacularly entertaining 1964 feature directorial debut, “Three Outlaw Samurai,” is a samurai film for moviegoers who aren’t necessarily fans of the samurai genre. At a running time of 93 minutes, the picture is briskly paced and packed with suspenseful set-pieces, while centering its narrative on a partnership between three men who could easily be dubbed, “Good,” “Bad” and “Ugly.”
Though the film essentially functions as a prequel to Gosha’s Japanese television show of the same name, moviegoers won’t need any familiarity with the material to get immediately caught up in the action. Tadashi Sakai’s in-your-face cinematography often slants to a diagonal angle while closing in on the agonized faces of foes as they fight to the death. When the sword meets flesh, Gosha doesn’t spare the audience of the blood that follows.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
Tetsurô Tamba, a veteran actor memorably featured in Masaki Kobayashi’s classic, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Three Outlaw Samurai (Criterion)
21 February 2012 4:10 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Ratings (out of five): ****
In Hideo’s Gosha’s Three Outlaw Samurai, the title characters aid peasants in their struggle against corrupt overlords. While this plot synopsis (and even the title of the film) suggests a sort of miniature version of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the parallel is misleading. Both films are rousing adventures and represent the pinnacle of the chambara/samurai genre. But, for all of its swordplay and suspense, Gosha’s film is a bitter depiction of how evil can prevail even when good men do something to prevent it. »
- weezy
Review: Criterion Collection: Three Outlaw Samurai [Blu-ray]
21 February 2012 8:30 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Criterion Collection: Three Outlaw Samurai [Blu-ray] Movie: Disc: Click here to read the dvd review! "Often compared to Sam Peckinpah, Gosha’s briskly paced katana operas are frequently drenched with sweat and assorted other bodily fluids. But Gosha is not interested in violence for its own sake, but as an inevitable consequence of his competently constructed and efficiently executed scenarios. If Kurosawa is the Stanley Kubrick of the Samurai genre, then Gosha is its Alan Parker." »
This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: Take Shelter, The Rum Diary, The Interrupters
14 February 2012 10:35 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Happy Valentine's Day! Sadly, there aren't too many romantic movies hitting DVD or Blu-ray today, but I suppose anything with Johnny Depp always makes for a perfect date flick... even if he happens to be playing an alcoholic. The Rum Diary is really the only major release of the week, with most of the other selections being indie and foreign films including Take Shelter starring Michael Shannon, Jose Padilha's Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence. Criterion is also putting out Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture and Hideo Gosha's Three Outlaw Samurai, and then there are a couple of acclaimed documentaries in The Interrupters and Urbanized. We'd also be remiss if we did not mention 50 Cent's cancer drama All Things Fall Apart... did someone say Oscar snub? What will you be buying or renting this week? Check out the list of new releases after the jump. »
- Sean
New on DVD and Blu-Ray, February 14: 'The Interrupters' 'Rum Diary'
14 February 2012 9:53 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
DVD or Blu-ray? Redbox or Netflix? Streaming? Whatever your poison, we've got the highlights and lowlights on the week's new releases. Moviefone's Pick of the Week "The Interrupters" What's It About? "Hoop Dreams" director Steve James tackles the crisis of inner-city violence and the people who are trying restore peace and unity; following the CeaseFire activist organization for over a year as they try to quash Chicago's outbreak of gang-related crimes, "Interrupters" documents several cases of possible redemption -- with various results. See It Because: Steve James films some incredibly real moments of hope and despair, and while the film feels epic in scope, it hits hardest when you realize that these events are just another day for everyone involved. Also New on DVD & Blu-ray "The Rum Diary" Johnny Depp adapts another Hunter S. Thompson novel, but without any of the flair of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." See »
- Eric Larnick
'Three Outlaw Samurai,' 'Tiny Furniture' and 'All Quiet on the Western Front' This Week on DVD and Blu-ray
14 February 2012 7:34 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Three Outlaw Samurai (Criterion Collection) I just watched this last night and enjoyed it quite a bit, but for anyone that reads this site often you will frequently see me complimenting samurai features. This one is a bit of a Criterion rarity in that it is feature free outside of the trailer and one essay, but the pricing does reflect that fact as Amazon has the Blu-ray listed at $19.99.
Prior to seeing this film I had never seen anything from director Hideo Gosha, but the storytelling here makes me want to see more. Three Outlaw Samurai follows the story of a wandering ronin who happens upon a situation where a trio of peasants have kidnapped the daughter of a tyrannical magistrate in an attempt to have their demands heard and to stop the oppression that has befallen eight local villages. The situation escalates when the magistrate fights back and two other samurai, »
- Brad Brevet
Film Junk Podcast Episode #357: The Artist
13 February 2012 9:15 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro / Jay's New Film Announcement 9:40 - Review: The Artist 59:10 - Trailer Trash: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Bourne Legacy 1:12:00 - Other Stuff We Watched: The Woman, The Other F Word, This Means War, Sanctum, The River, Nightmare Factory, Paris, Texas, Southland Tales, Donnie Darko, Three Outlaw Samurai, Adaptation 1:47:20 - Junk Mail: The Artist vs. Avatar, Actor Performances Influenced by Real-Life Experiences, Career Redefining Roles, Thinking Too Much About Ratings, Quitting Movies Halfway Through, Movies We Each Like that the Others Hate, Bilingual Packaging, U.K. Ratings on DVD Spine, Counting Box Sets, Special Widescreen Format TV, Premium Episode Top 5, On Cinema + Geaux Hornets 2:24:35 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:27:00 - Outro
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- Sean
Three Outlaw Samurai Blu Ray Review
11 February 2012 5:14 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Three Outlaw Samurai Directed by Hideo Gosha Written by Kelichi Abe, Eizaburo Shiba, and Hideo Gosha Starring Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira, and Mikyuki Kuwano Hideo Gosha's 'Three Outlaw Samurai' is a competently told samurai story that never really reaches levels of brilliance, but manages to remain consistently intriguing and entertaining. Three samurais become caught up in a microscopic class-war uprising that plays out as part siege film and part revenge film. The film begins as a group of peasant men take the magistrate's daughter hostage in an attempt to force a change in the treatment of local farmers. One of the men has written A wandering Ronin named Sakon Shiba (Tetsuro Tamba) happens upon the disturbance and decides to bunk within the hut of the peasants, curious to see what transpires. The magistrate hires his own samurai to resolve the issue, only to find one of the two, »
- Jay C.
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