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Jul
23
2008

If Only We Had A Pachinko Parlour Here …

Posted by Todd Brown at 6:41am.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Martial Arts, Drama, Action, Asia.

Yes, Akira Kurosawa must be spinning in his grave right now thanks to the disrespect his son is showing by selling off remake rights to his films to seemingly anyone who comes knocking and, yes, it’s sad to see that Samurai Fiction director Hiroyuki Nakano has slipped to this but damn if it doesn’t actually look pretty good.

What is it?  Hiroyuki Nakano - once an international darling, now absent from the feature film world for several years - has directed a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai starring Sonny Chiba and Nagase Masatoshi with several of Kurosawa’s original creative team on board in key support roles.  As you’d expect from a Nakano film, it looks fantastic.  And as you’d expect from a Nakano film it has a killer soundtrack - in this case all Rolling Stones tunes.  The weird bit?  It was prepared for a special edition pachinko machine.  Yes, kids, to see the new Nakano film you’ll need to head to your local gambling emporium and get playing.  Go figure.

There are multiple trailers available on the official website - if someone could figure out how to capture those and load them into the Twitch Player, I’d be grateful - and you can hit the link below for more details.

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  1. Airchinapilot 07/23/2008 @ 10:36am

    WTF.. streaming without buffering .. kiss my ass

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