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Aktungbby · 05-19-14, 02:18 PM

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702304655304579547093505162448?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB 20001424052702304655304579547093505162448.html For all you secret Samurai buffs (The Five Rings?!!) out there; munching your popcorn in dark art theatres in your silk kimonos and wishing your Katana was a little bigger...the end of an era after half a century of making everyone from Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbu) to Tom Cruise (The Last Samurai) look good while looking pretty good himself- just by getting killed spectacularly! Seizô Fukumoto is hanging it up (the katana) after 50 years of making the hero look good! Known in the trade as a "Kiroreyaku" or 'chopped up actor", Mr. Fukumoto has died over 20,000 and possibly 50,000 times- to our great enjoyment... when not dying gloriously ourselves whilst subsimming!

05-19-14, 02:18 PM	#1
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,042 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Acting is a Dying art! Sayonara BBY! http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702304655304579547093505162448?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB 20001424052702304655304579547093505162448.html For all you secret Samurai buffs (The Five Rings?!!) out there; munching your popcorn in dark art theatres in your silk kimonos and wishing your Katana was a little bigger...the end of an era after half a century of making everyone from Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbu) to Tom Cruise (The Last Samurai) look good while looking pretty good himself- just by getting killed spectacularly! Seizô Fukumoto is hanging it up (the katana) after 50 years of making the hero look good! Known in the trade as a "*Kiroreyaku" or 'chopped up actor", Mr. Fukumoto has died over 20,000 and possibly 50,000 times- to our great enjoyment... when not dying gloriously* ourselves whilst subsimming! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 05-19-14 at 03:02 PM.