Month: April 2019
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Episode #10 – The Magnificent Seven Samurai, Part 1 (七人の侍／荒野の七人)
In the first of this three-part season finale, I've invited fellow author and movie reviewer Derrick Ferguson to come on and talk with me about Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic, Seven Samurai, and to compare it with John Sturges' 1960 remake, The Magnificent Seven.
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Episode #9 – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼：子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる)
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
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Episode #8 – The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件)
Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed her. Television begins to cover her story. A TV show interviews Miki Shirono's colleagues, family, people from her hometown. Rumors turn into fear. Is she a wicked a woman?
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Episode #7 – Confessions (告白)
Yuko Moriguchi was a doting single mother and a junior high school teacher, until the day her daughter, Manami, was found dead in a pool. The police ruled it a drowning, but Yuko discovered a far more sinister explanation—Manami was murdered by two of her students. But due to the juvenile law, even if she went to the police, she knows the students wouldn't be punished due to their age. Instead, Yuko sets into motion a chilling plan of psychological torment in order to avenge the death of her daughter.
