Your top 5 Samurai movies

[Zaroku]

... Sure: Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (1954), with Toshiro Mifune...

... "The Last Samurai" (2003) was pretty good (even if I don't like Tom Cruise)...

Edit: Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" (1980), as well...

i met kurosawas daughter at a dimond event my wife was running.. i met all kinds of people..

Ran, Ikiru, and Shichinin no samurai. yohjimbo. etc.. i practice swords every week.. still can't cut a thick bamboo with my back stroke..

i might need to post more pics.. of my mentor.. i hate to sound like your avg foolis fake kung fu.. ninja dart throwing super bad ass...

i really do not know how to respond to clwon clowns.. i cannot tell you how to build a castle outta ply wood..

my jap is better than my crappy english..

[MDPopescu]

i met kurosawas daughter at a diamond event my wife was running.. i met all kinds of people..

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my jap is better than my crappy english..

... Nice...

... and: are you smuggling diamonds in Japan (using the famous "*** Connection"?

[Anthony342]

What, no love for Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD or Samurai Cop?

[Zaroku]

... Nice...

... and: are you smuggling diamonds in Japan (using the famous "*** Connection"?

nope.. my wife worked for that company.. forever mark.. debeers.. diamonds.. i am a poor *** boy who struggles daily to deal with condescending know it all fools who can't read hebrew..

my wife is now selling some German expensive furniture.. perhaps you know the company..

me.. i am just a poor man.. struggling to make my ends meet.. my money is always small.. can someone help me out at low or no interest..???

this is me..



ill gladly pay you tuesday for a burger today...

[MDPopescu]

nope.. my wife worked for that company.. forever mark.. debeers.. diamonds.. i am a poor *** boy who struggles daily to deal with condescending know it all fools who can't read hebrew..

my wife is now selling some German expensive furniture.. perhaps you know the company..

me.. i am just a poor man.. struggling to make my ends meet.. my money is always small.. can someone help me out at low or no interest..???

this is me..



ill gladly pay you tuesday for a burger today...

... so your wife worked for De Beers and quit?... How that?...

(De Beers still holds the diamonds monopoly worldwide, and it was always controlled by ***s...)

[John Barron]

seven samurai
yojimbo
sanjuro
13 assassins
the last samurai

how Japan went from alpha samurai to consuming anime and not ****ing their women is beyond me.

[John Barron]

Seven Samurai is the best samurai movie ever created. The ending was very sad though. Probably the saddest ending in samurai movies

kikuchiyo's speech scolding the samurai is peak kino.

... Sure: Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (1954), with Toshiro Mifune...

... "The Last Samurai" (2003) was pretty good (even if I don't like Tom Cruise)...

Edit: Kurosawa's "Kagemusha" (1980), as well...

yea everyone hates on the last samurai because of tom but overall the movie was pretty damn good.
the scene where the Japanese army was gunning down the samurai with gatling guns and tears in their eyes is also peak kino.

[MDPopescu]

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yea everyone hates on the last samurai because of tom but overall the movie was pretty damn good.
the scene where the Japanese army was gunning down the samurai with gatling guns and tears in their eyes is also peak kino.

... it's a good historical movie -- it illustrates some sort of "paradigm shift" in Japan's society... (and Tom Cruise always is as cold as a fish)...

[John Barron]

... it's a good historical movie -- it illustrates some sort of "paradigm shift" in Japan's society... (and Tom Cruise always is as cold as a fish)...

yea it was a shift in societal structure. but samurai culture carried over for a while, mainly the Japanese evoking the samurai code and discipline into every aspect of life. the Japanese imperial army still carried katana swords into battle during WW2. then after WW2 came another paradigm shift...

[MDPopescu]

yea it was a shift in societal structure. but samurai culture carried over for a while, mainly the Japanese evoking the samurai code and discipline into every aspect of life. the Japanese imperial army still carried katana swords into battle during WW2. then after WW2 came another paradigm shift...

... a "paradigm shift" sometimes is politically-driven only... but a true "social-cultural shift" needs much more than politics, it seems...