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Movie Reviews of Red Sun
Movie Review: The holy grail of cinema awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
Finding a copy of this DVD should be listed as one of the ten labors of Hercules or on par with finding the Holy Grail. Amazon is the ONLY place I have been able to find a copy of this film that will work on an American DVD player. For some idiotic reason, the film is out of print. I can say that THIS version of the film works just fine, and the picture and sound are more than passable for a movie that came out in the 70s. This movie has two enormous things in its favor:
#1: This is a samurai western staring Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson.
#2: If that didn't sell you on the idea of this movie, then you have no soul, and should resign yourself to a joyless existence.
Seriously, as a big western and samurai movie fan, this film sounded like a pipe dream or fan-fiction until I stumbled across it looking up old spaghetti westerns.
As to the film itself, it's pretty much what you'd expect, and it's awesome. Each character gets their own moments to shine in the spotlight as far as action goes. You get Cowboy vs Samurai, Cowboy vs Cowboy, Samurai vs Indian and Indian vs Cowboy and every other combination in between. There are quite a few funny bits throughout the film as well. Bronson's ambush of Mifune out in the woods resembles a certain skit from Robinhood: Men in Tights, and that's all I'll say about it. Oh yeah, and it has Ursela "Undress" as eye candy, seriously, I can't make this stuff up at this point.
This is the movie Quinton Tarantino wishes he could make today.
Movie Review: An excellent Old West adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film at a theater in Bangkok, Thailand (1972) when I was on leave from army service in Vietnam. It became available on VHS during the 1980's and I wasted no time adding it to my collection. The videotape version didn't really do the film justice, however, and I was quite pleased to see it reissued in a digitally remastered DVD version.
Charles Bronson stars as Link, a train robber who is nearly killed when his partner Gauche (Alan Dillon) tries to blow him up with dynamite shortly after they stop a train to rob it. Apparently unknown by the robbers before the heist, the train includes a Japanese diplomat's private car. Gauche robs the Ambassador of gold and an exquisite sword which was intended to be a gift for the President of the United States. In the process, he also kills one of the Ambassador's samurai guards.
The adventure begins as Link teams up with the remaining samurai Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune) to track down his double-crossing partner. Link's primary motive is to get the gold from the robbery which he believes is rightly his. Unfortunately for Link, Kuroda has his own agenda: recover the precious sword and kill Gauche. Which one will succeed when they finally track down their man?
The digital remastering is impressive. I also noticed a few minutes of restored footage which were not in either the VHS or theatrical versions, including brief nudity by Ursula Andress.
Movie Review: Yojimbo meets one of the Seven
Summary: 5 Stars
I have searched near and far for a decent copy of this film and wham, I plugged in the title on Amazon.com and found this jewel. Evergreen films which looks like its source is from a Hong Kong distributor has delivered the best transfer of this film I have ever seen. You really appreciate the masterful photography of Henri Alekan especially at the climax in the cane fields . The soundtrack is crystal clear making the appreciation of the music by Maurice Jarre that much more satisfying. I never realized from my old murky VHS copy that Jarre mixes a blend of Anglo/Japanese themes making it atmospheric and soaring at the same time. The plot is simple: A railroad car gold robbery goes the way of the double cross as Charles Bronson is left for dead by greedy Alain Delon who also makes the fatal mistake of stealing an ancient samurai sword from Toshiro Mefune, a Japanese dignitary on his way to Washington to present it to the President. Bronson and Mifune team up to recover both gold and sword and meet Indians, Capucine and Delon's girlfriend Ursula Andress along the way. Director Terence Young keeps things flowing at a brisk pace and no wonder, he directed three Sean Connery Bonds, and also directed Bronson in 'THE VALACHI PAPERS'. Highly recommended to both Western and action movie fans. The DVD transfer is just like Ursula Andress--Drop Dead Gorgeous.Movie Review: HONOR ABOVE MONEY
Summary: 5 Stars
What a terrific movie, a foreign made, atypical western having train robbery, an attempted murderous double cross, and a 7-day cross-country traipse to recover the loot.
The photography, the mountains, out-of-the-way deserted locations, and the crisp dialogue leaves very little to desire in a rousing western adventure. The script is superb, with exceptional acting, interesting and arresting women, Comanche Indian attacks, great looking horses and horsemanship, broken mountainous country, and a mixture of Japanese/American culture combined with a dual quest almost to equal the knights of Arthur's round table. The soundtrack is very pleasant, never intruding as is true with some movies.
A movie not to be missed and one to view over and over. It's been showing on ENCORE westerns all month, September, 2008, and I've already viewed it several times.
Semper Fi.
Movie Review: Sushi-Western
Summary: 5 Stars
I must admit I am completely biased on this movie. I saw it twice in the mid seventies on cable and loved it. The set up is fairly simple and the theme is cliched. An ulikely partnership between to polar opposite characters. The difference is, of course the two main actors. Toshiro Mifune is the consumate samurai. His work with director Akira Kurosawa is legendary. Charles Bronson is the very essence of the western tough guy. The supporting actors and their bad accents give the Sergio Leone/ Clint Eastwood flavor needed to bring this one home. Bronson and Mifune have great chemistry and you care for the samurai's mission. This particular disc, while it had no extras, is very well done. The quality of transfer is second only to the Lawrence of Arabia disc.