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Originally Posted by Dowly
Never seen Blind Fury, but have watched the Zatoichi series a couple of times. Must check it out!  |
Well worth the effort;
Blind Fury is sort of one of my "guilty pleasures", a film not highly considered, but with elements that make it highly watchable, primarily watching Hauer tackle the character with such glee. The biggest drawback was the supporting cast who, either through bad acting of their own or being given overly cartoonish characters to play, dragged down the film a bit. Too bad; the idea of a series showed promise...
I was a big fan of the Zatoichi films and was lucky there was a Toho Films theater here in LA that showed those films regularly, along with other favorite cult films like Lone Wolf and Cub. It always amazes me just how much Hollywood lifted from Japanese cinema in the years following WW2, not just from noted filmmakers line Kurosawa, Oshima, and Ozu, but, also, from the many more "mass-market" films...
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