Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1971) (DVD) (US Version) DVD Region 1
Mifune Toshiro (Actor) |
Kobayashi Keiju (Actor) |
Kitaoji Kinya (Actor) |
sawashima tadashi (Director)
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| Product Title: | Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1971) (DVD) (US Version) 新選組: 誠 (1971) (DVD) (美國版) 新选组: 诚 (1971) (DVD) (美国版) Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1971) (DVD) (US Version) Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1971) (DVD) (US Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Mifune Toshiro (Actor) | Kobayashi Keiju (Actor) | Kitaoji Kinya (Actor) 三船敏郎 (Actor) | 小林桂樹 (Actor) | 北大路欣也 (Actor) 叁船敏郎 (Actor) | 小林桂树 (Actor) | 北大路欣也 (Actor) 三船敏郎 (Actor) | Kobayashi Keiju (Actor) | 北大路欣也 (Actor) Mifune Toshiro (Actor) | Kobayashi Keiju (Actor) | Kitaoji Kinya (Actor) |
| Director: | sawashima tadashi 澤島忠 泽岛忠 沢島忠 sawashima tadashi |
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| Release Date: | 2007-05-28 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.66 : 1 |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it? |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Duration: | 122 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Animeigo |
| Package Weight: | 100 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004856634 |
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* Screen Format: 1.66:1
Directors: Tadashi Sawashima
The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a covert military organization in the employ of the 19th-century Japanese aristocracy. To protect their decadent employers, the Shinshen regularly ventured out to kill political enemies and other undesirables. Toshiro Mifune is among the participants in the film's steady (and seemingly endless) stream of bloodletting. Band of Assassins was one of the bread-and-butter pictures which Mifune made in order to afford to work in more prestigious fare.
Directors: Tadashi Sawashima
The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a covert military organization in the employ of the 19th-century Japanese aristocracy. To protect their decadent employers, the Shinshen regularly ventured out to kill political enemies and other undesirables. Toshiro Mifune is among the participants in the film's steady (and seemingly endless) stream of bloodletting. Band of Assassins was one of the bread-and-butter pictures which Mifune made in order to afford to work in more prestigious fare.
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Kevin Kennedy
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November 17, 2008
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November 17, 2008
A must-see for Mifune fans!
| In "Shinsengume", Mifune Toshiro stars as Kondo Isami, a farmer and master of a dojo who rises to become the head of the Shinsengumi, an elite paramilitary group dedicated to the defense of Japan's old order against the rise of modernizers and Westernizers in 1860s Japan. At its core, the film is about the Bushido Code, the Way of the Samurai. We see Bushido's role in shaping a lean, mean fighting machine, and its downside in the coldblooded shedding of blood. The greatness of Mifune's performance is in how he brings this abstract subject to human life. Kondo begins as the living embodiment of Bushido, as he purges the Shinsengumi of those lacking the proper discipline and loyalties. Kondo, however, is not impervious to the human toll exacted by the implementation of the Code. Mifune lets us see the internal struggles of this great leader. The film is stylishly mounted and sturdily directed. I recommend it highly. |
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