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Samurai Rebellion

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Samurai Rebellion (1967)

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Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Synopsis: Set in 18th-century Japan, during the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate, SAMURAI REBELLION stars Toshirô Mifune as Isaburo Sasahara, swordsman and official at the court of Lord Matsudaira (Tatsuo Matsumura). Ichi (Yôko Tsukasa), a mistress of the lord, has been banished for striking her... Set in 18th-century Japan, during the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate, SAMURAI REBELLION stars Toshirô Mifune as Isaburo Sasahara, swordsman and official at the court of Lord Matsudaira (Tatsuo Matsumura). Ichi (Yôko Tsukasa), a mistress of the lord, has been banished for striking her master for taking a new mistress. Matsudaira orders Isaburo's son, Yogoro (Takeshi Kato), to marry her, since she is still the mother of one of his offspring. Isaburo, deeply unhappy in his own marriage, accepts the order only with great reluctance. However Ichi proves to be a wonderful wife, and the marriage is a happy one. All is well for a couple of years, until Matsudaira's son dies, and he orders Ichi to return to the castle, since he has no offspring other than the daughter she has borne him. Isaburo urges the young couple to resist the lord's fiat, and he and Yogoro openly refuse Matsudaira's command that they commit harakiri. Mifune is tremendous as the proud Isaburo in Kobayashi's exposure of the innate injustice of Japan's feudal society. The film's severe, formal beauty is complemented by Takemitsu's score, which draws on the colorful sounds of traditional Japanese instruments. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tatsuo Matsumura, Takeshi Kato, Yôko Tsukasa

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Screenwriter: Shinobu Hashimoto
Story: Hariyozuma Shimatsu

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 10, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Notes: 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:

  • Interview - 1. Excerpt From 1993 Interview with director Masaki Kobayashi
  • Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer3

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Essay by Japanese film historian Donald Richie

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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3.5/4

The film's escalation of tension is almost unbearable, and Mifune erupts with a ferocity that's as righteous as it is ultimately tragic, for Kobayashi refuses to soften the film's devastating imbalance of power.

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06/16/06
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times
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As powerful, meditative, and gripping as anything Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, or other Japanese masters have created.

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08/25/05
Gabe Leibowitz
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Austerely anti-authoritarian.

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08/16/05
Chuck Stephens
Village Voice
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07/19/05
Emanuel Levy
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3/4

As extreme a samurai film as I've seen in both senses (the ethics and the violence), and one of the best.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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4/5

A well-made Toshiro Mifune' vehicle about class system injustice in Feudal Japan. Slow at first, but builds to an action-packed finale'.

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03/21/03
Brian Mckay
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