Blade of immortal in the hands of Takashi Miike

The article is devoted to the creativity of the cult Japanese film director Takashi Miike, who has released over hundred films, video and television production since his debut in 1991. His works are usually associated with merciless murders, cruelty, blood, absurdity and unreal dreams. But at the same time even in the toughest of them you can find the touching sentiment moments. «Blade of Immortal» is his 100th and the first full-length English-language film, premiered at Canners last year. At the first glance «Blade of Immortal» can be attributed to the Japanese traditional genre - chyambara - historical films with lots of sword fights. But this is more a stylization of this genre because in the film there are also adventure, drama and much more that doesn’t fit into the familiar framework of the samurai action movie. This is far from the only film in Miike’s filmography, praising samurai heroic and the Japanese Middle Ages. It is necessary to name several works of the director, which can be conditionally attributed to the historical genre - djidaigeki. As usual these are remakes of classic Japanese films: «13 Assassins» (a remake of Eiichi Kudo 1963 film of the same title), «Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai» (a remake of the 1962 classic by Masaki Kobayashi), a well known action-parody of American and Italian westerns (spaghetti western) «Sukiyaki western Django», which are discussed in detail in this article.

Keywords

Tакаshi Miike, ljidaigeki, chyambara, Japanese film, remake, western, samurai,blade of immortal

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01.08.2018

Publication date

27.08.2018

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24813

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GOST	Katasonova E. Blade of immortal in the hands of Takashi Miike // Asia and Africa Today – 2018. – Issue 7 C. 74-79 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://asaf-today.ru/S032150750000103-5-1 (circulation date: 16.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000103-5
MLA	Katasonova, Elena "Blade of immortal in the hands of Takashi Miike." Asia and Africa Today 7 (2018):74-79. DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000103-5
APA	Katasonova E. (2018). Blade of immortal in the hands of Takashi Miike. Asia and Africa Today (7), pp.74-79 DOI: 10.31857/S032150750000103-5

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