Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) DVD Region 1
Tamba Tetsuro (Actor)
| John Hopkins (Actor)
| Okada Eiji (Actor)
| Shinoda Masahiro (Director)
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Director Masahiro Shinoda weaves a complex, twisty narrative in the aptly named SAMURAI SPY, which follows war- and subterfuge-weary warrior Sasuke Sarutobi (Tetsuro Tamba) as he gets drawn into one last mission, tracing a wily defector named Koritama. Defying the genre conventions of samurai films, Shinoda's story is full of noir-ish intrigue and double-crosses. It takes place in a world where none of the characters, not even samurai, are what they seem.
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| Product Title: | Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version) |
| Also known as: | Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke |
| Artist Name(s): | Tamba Tetsuro (Actor) | John Hopkins (Actor) | Okada Eiji (Actor) 丹波哲郎 (Actor) | John Hopkins (Actor) | 岡田英次 (Actor) 丹波哲郎 (Actor) | John Hopkins (Actor) | 冈田英次 (Actor) 丹波哲郎 (Actor) | Ｊｏｈｎ Ｈｏｐｋｉｎｓ (Actor) | 岡田英次 (Actor) Tamba Tetsuro (Actor) | John Hopkins (Actor) | Okada Eiji (Actor) |
| Director: | Shinoda Masahiro 篠田 正浩 篠田 正浩 篠田 正浩 Shinoda Masahiro |
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| Release Date: | 2005-10-18 |
| UPC Code: | 037429209820 |
| Language: | English |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Color Information: | Color |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it? |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Publisher: | Image Entertainment, Inc. |
| Package Weight: | 113 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004415397 |
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Director: Masahiro Shinoda
DVD Features:
Notes: This is a new restored high-definition digital transfer with new and improved English subtitle translation.
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - Japanese
Additional Release Material:
Video Interview - 1. Masahiro Shinoda - Director
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay by film scholar Alain Silver
Notes: This is a new restored high-definition digital transfer with new and improved English subtitle translation.
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - Japanese
Additional Release Material:
Video Interview - 1. Masahiro Shinoda - Director
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay by film scholar Alain Silver
Additional Information may be provided by the manufacturer, supplier, or a third party, and may be in its original language
Customer Review of "Samurai Spy (Criterion Collection) (US Version)"
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Kevin Kennedy
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May 26, 2008
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May 26, 2008
Complex tale of ninja spies
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Shinoda Masahiro's "Samurai Spy" tells a complex story of interweaving plots among multitudes of ninja spies having conflicting, wavering, or simply indiscernible loyalties. Takahashi Koji stars as the incorruptibly noble Sarutobi Sasuke. Tamba Tetsuro pops in and out of the action as Sasuke's nemesis, the supremely lethal Sakon Takatani. The film has great strengths and great weaknesses. The primary weakness of "Samurai Spy" is its heavy-handed explication of the overly complicated plot. All of the explanatory detail stops the movie dead in its tracks several times. Moreover, for your humble reviewer, even with all of that information, the plot remained barely comprehensible. On the plus side, the stark black and white cinematography features many striking, utterly original images. The great Takemitsu Toru's soundtrack music is audaciously brilliant. And the film's use of silence to heighten dramatic tension is very effective. So ... the film looks and sounds terrific. The film's main flaw may arise from the fact that director Shinoda was seeking to kill off the chanbara genre. (He admits this in the supplemental interview.) He was more interested in telling a political story, but chose to tell it in the form of a ninja action film. In the end, the genre he chose simply was inappropriate for the story he wanted to tell. However, this interesting failure is worth watching to see the seeds Shinoda was sowing that later would blossom into such masterworks as "Double Suicide" and "Gonza the Spearman". |
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