The Loyal 47 Ronin
Paul has a great thing (impassioned one-paragraph film reviews) going over at Paragraph Film Reviews. His JAPAN-O-RAMA series generously allowed for guest contributions on a longtime favorite genre of mine. The cinema of Japan. Today, I got a chance to do just that. I hope you check out his site and this series.
As part of the JAPANORAMA feature I am inviting fellow movie sites to join in. This post is from Michael over at It Rains… You Get Wet (a sweet Heat reference). The site is full of great articles, although I particularly like the TMT series of posts, which are great pieces of cinema nostalgia – and make me wish that I could visit such grand cinemas in their heyday. You can also follow Michael on Twitter @le0pard13.
The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠 臣蔵 Chushingura) (1958), directed Kunio Watanabe, is based on a historical event that occurred in early 18th century Japan. In that ancient land, it’s the national legend typifying the samurai code of honor, bushidō. I daresay, few westerners before World War II knew of it. Of course, after 1998 that number went up significantly with John Frankenheimer’s espionage-thriller Ronin, which used the famed tale as allegory to its own. Its summation works…
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2 Responses to “The Loyal 47 Ronin”
I love the history of 47 ronin…will definitely read you post now 🙂
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Thank you, Novroz 🙂
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