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(tcbg again)I'm totally lost on this one-never was too big on foreign films (especially pre color)
Production company did not acquire remake rights, resulting in a lawsuit and delaying the film's US release until 1967 (three years after its Italian release).
Yes, it is one of those three 1996 Bruce Willis movies.
Japanese, and, in fact, Kurosawa. He had a huge influence on the Western genre, not just through remakes. The film in question inspired not just the "unofficial remake", but two more films that comprise what is probably the most famous trilogy in the genre, and gave a certain young "Rowdy" actor is first big break (and one of his most iconic characters, though no one would be able to tell you his name).Is this a Japanese film? We seem to remake Kurosawa movies all the time. (Magnificent 7, The Outrage) Even if it is, I still won't know it. This is the hardest quote we have had-and perhaps the most obscure-and I should know since I have posted some real doozies
I don't like to make things easy.
Yojimbo?Production company did not acquire remake rights, resulting in a lawsuit and delaying the film's US release until 1967 (three years after its Italian release).
Yes, it is one of those three 1996 Bruce Willis movies.
Japanese, and, in fact, Kurosawa. He had a huge influence on the Western genre, not just through remakes. The film in question inspired not just the "unofficial remake", but two more films that comprise what is probably the most famous trilogy in the genre, and gave a certain young "Rowdy" actor is first big break (and one of his most iconic characters, though no one would be able to tell you his name).
The third movie of said Western trilogy featured a theme song that would become famous, and used by Metallica at the start of all of their concerts.
Lots of hints in there, though some are more subtle than others. I don't like to make things easy.
I didn't know most of that, but I know Last Man Standing is a remake of... Yojimbo.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
That is the name he gives (Kuwabatake Sanjuro), but it means "Mulberry Field thirty-year-old/thirtysomething" and is merely a reference to the fields he was gazing at in the opening scene, and his approximate age. For all intents and purposes that is his character's name, as it is how we (and the other characters) refer to him, but in actuality, he never gives his real name (it's similar to the way people refer to Ed Norton's "Fight Club" character as "Jack", though we never learn his real name).That is a ton of hints
Isn't Mifune's character's name Sanjuro? I know that's the title of one of the other movies, and I always thought that was his name, but I don't know why. I haven't watched them in ages.
That is a ton of hints
Isn't Mifune's character's name Sanjuro? I know that's the title of one of the other movies, and I always thought that was his name, but I don't know why. I haven't watched them in ages.
Anyway. A quote.
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EDIT: Dammit, Bob. This one was alive for 14 weeks and you beat me by 4 minutes
i actually may have seen that movie in the 60's. Darn! Jenny and I tossed that line around for days and could not even come up with a possible. Now that was a tough one!
