VLVL re western media portrayals of Japan

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  As I await breathlessly "Beat" Takeshi
Kitano's take on the Zatoichi series (2003) ...

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hollywood's Land of the Rising Cliché
> By MOTOKO RICH
> Published: January 4, 2004
> 
> 
> [...] But what seems to grate at Japanese viewers a
> bit more is the movie's storybook approach to the
> samurai, who are depicted as unfailingly noble, and
> as pure as warriors can possibly be. In fact, the
> samurai myth is now a fairly tarnished one in Japan,
> in a way that the movie's glory-filled depiction
> doesn't reflect....

But see as well The Razor (a.k.a. Hanzo the Blade)
films, also starring the late, great Shintaro Katsu ...

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