Does anyone remember this

Novella 2022-03-22 09:02:22

The 1993 theatrical version, Kawajiri Yoshiaki's most outstanding film, is even worse than the famous "Vampire Hunter D".
After reading it, I suddenly felt that Kawajiri Yoshiaki was actually a fan of Yamada Futaro from the bottom of his heart, just like himself. The protagonist of the beast soldier, "じゅうべえ (Juubei)", maybe in Kawajiri Yoshiaki's mind, he wants to read him as "Ten soldier guards".
The reason why I am so keen on this type of film is that if I go back to the source, it was the "Saomi Hachiken Biography" that was broadcast on cable TV in junior high school. At that time, such films were extremely rare. Among them, the heroine Jing Ji is played by Yakushi Maru Hiroko (薬SHI Maru ひろ子, Gemini on June 9, 1964), which is still fresh in my memory. I was really fascinated by her at that time. I remember the "W の Tragedy" on TV was repeated Look again. Now that I'm older, I don't come out and act often, and I've only seen it in "One Litre of Tears" recently. In addition to Asano Atsuko, I liked Japanese actresses the most when I was a child. I was also very impressed by Natsuki Mauri, another female warrior who played "Li" - my sister-in-law tendencies may have started at that time.
I didn't pay much attention to the male protagonist Hiroyuki Sanada (Libra on October 12, 1960), but now, because of the well-known "blood case caused by a steamed bun", everyone knows about the "Squad Leader Sanada". , his and Miyazawa Rie's "The Qinghei of Dusk" is really a classic.
Chiba Shinichi (January 23, 1939, Aquarius) played the loyal dog in "The Legend of the Eight Dogs", and the familiarity with him in China is still from the hero in "The Wind and Clouds Dominate the World". Chiba established the JAC Production Company in 1970, and both Pharmacist Maru Hiroko and Sanada Hiroyuki are popular under its banner. At the age of 70 this year, he announced his retirement from the film industry on July 16, 2007. The NHK big river drama "Fenglin Volcano" is his last work. In my mind, he is forever "Yagyu Jubei". (The representative works are "Devil Reincarnation" and "The Conspiracy of the Yagyu Family" directed by Fukasaku Shinji)

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Ninja Scroll quotes

  • Jubei: I'll kill you yet!

    Lord Himuro Gemma: [reattaches his severed arm] No one can kill me. This - you, of all men - should know by now.

    [picks Jubei up]

    Lord Himuro Gemma: I have become immortal as a true demon.

    Jubei: Is that so?

    [repeatedly headbutts Gemma]

    Jubei: I swear if you... come back to life again, then I'll... kill you again, no matter how many times!

    [screams and delivers a final blow]

  • Yurimaru: Benisato... you mean the man Jubei Kibagami is the remnant of the government spies?

    Benisato: Possibly.

    Yurimaru: Why didn't you kill him?

    Benisato: Someone interfered.

    Yurimaru: No excuses accepted.

    [attempts to wrap a wire around her neck, but she catches it and it wraps around her arm]

    Yurimaru: If he is a government spy, he'll show up soon enough. Be sure to kill him next time.

    Benisato: I don't need your advice on that. If you don't mind, I'll tell Gemma in bed later on, Yurimaru. Do you mind?

    Yurimaru: [pulls the wire from Benisato's arm] Sleep well.