If you haven’t seen it yet there is a great Samurai Cinema tumblr blog. I love samurai movies. In fact I credit Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies with getting me to go to film school (maybe I should say blame instead of credit). Anyway, this guy running this blog is creating all of his own screencaps and gifs from some of the greatest samurai movies of all time. You have to respect a blog that doesn’t just reblog a bunch of junk (no snarky comments, I almost never reblog).
It makes me want to introduce samurai movies to my Chinese students because they honestly have not clue about these movies. It will be a hard sell I think. A lot of them love modern Japanese movies and cartoons, but I think samurai movies will only make them think of Japanese invasions of the past and throw up a wall against them. We’ll see.
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