February 2012
3 posts
Aaron Harbour Introduces The Sword of Doom
The Sword of Doom – An Introduction
By Aaron Harbour
Introduction to an introduction
All narrative – and in our case here, film – has at its core some manner of conflict. These can range from interpersonal conflicts between groups due to some differences that appear to be irreconcilable beyond a zero-sum hashing out, to an internal struggle following one person as they navigate a fork in their...
February 21: The Sword of Doom
Join us for Movie Night at the OACC!
This month we will be screening The Sword of Doom (大菩薩峠 Dai-bosatsu tōge) by Japanese filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto. The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune in a story of a wandering samurai, surrounded by - and the cause of - a maelstrom of violence. “The sword is the soul. An evil sword is an evil sword.” In his 1967 review of the film,...
Anthony Discenza Introduces House
How Seven Beauties Were Eaten! The Strange History of an Even Stranger House
We have Steven Spielberg and a killer shark to thank, albeit highly indirectly, for the indescribable experience of House (Hausu, as it is known in Japan). Following the massive success of the movie Jaws, the Japanese film industry, which had been in something of the doldrums throughout the 1970’s, decided that they...