Banzai, Bushido, and bitches.

Maintained by: Rinato + Dinosaurier

October 14, 2011

  • Massive update since we haven’t updated in so so long! I will try to keep this blog running on at least a semi-regular basis. Or maybe just continue with large updates every so often.

  • swintons: Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha (1980) Akira Kurosawa began his career as a painter and had always been skilled at drawing. Unlike directors who are drawn to filmmaking by purely literary instincts, Akira Kurosawa turned to this medium to express his visual imagination as much as his narrative interests. In Kagemusha, the energy of a passionate young artist and the genius of a mature master seem to reunite. The film is as much the triumph of the painter that Kurosawa had been as a youth as of the masterful playwright he had become. [x]

    swintons:

    Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha (1980)

    Akira Kurosawa began his career as a painter and had always been skilled at drawing. Unlike directors who are drawn to filmmaking by purely literary instincts, Akira Kurosawa turned to this medium to express his visual imagination as much as his narrative interests. In Kagemusha, the energy of a passionate young artist and the genius of a mature master seem to reunite. The film is as much the triumph of the painter that Kurosawa had been as a youth as of the masterful playwright he had become. [x]

  •   This post has 27 notes
  • Tags :
  • Kagemusha
  • film
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • samurai
  • shogunate
  • oldthunder: Utagawa Kuniyoshi | The samurai seems to be successfully warding off enemy arrows with his sword, but the helmet and armor on the ground beside him indicate that the warrior knew the end was near. In a hopeless situation with his troops out-manned, Saito Tatsuoki removed his armor and committed suicide. 

    oldthunder:

    Utagawa Kuniyoshi | The samurai seems to be successfully warding off enemy arrows with his sword, but the helmet and armor on the ground beside him indicate that the warrior knew the end was near. In a hopeless situation with his troops out-manned, Saito Tatsuoki removed his armor and committed suicide. 

  •   This post has 106 notes
  • Tags :
  • Utagawa Kuniyoshi
  • art
  • ukiyo-e
  • samurai
  • fugu-suicide: Original lone wolf and cub? seagull sword stance + kid on his back +samurai fro i think it’s Hiroshige II or Toyokuni, i searched both names to find similar sig, but all that came up is combined prints that they worked on together and had the same sig as this.

    fugu-suicide:

    Original lone wolf and cub? seagull sword stance + kid on his back +samurai fro

    i think it’s Hiroshige II or Toyokuni, i searched both names to find similar sig, but all that came up is combined prints that they worked on together and had the same sig as this.

  •   This post has 124 notes
  • Tags :
  • samurai
  • ukiyo-e
  • art