While I'll be watching the "True Detective" season finale tonight, this week was relatively television free, though it made for time to watch a couple movies. First there was 300: Rise of an Empire (which I've already reviewed), then The Grand Budapest Hotel, for which I offered up some thoughts, but will have a full review this week. I will say this about Grand Budapest, I could watch it again right now. At home I watched Criterion's new Blu-ray release of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which I will have a review for this coming week and just last night I watched Zatoichi the Outlaw, the sixteenth Zatoichi film, as I continue to make my way through Criterion's wonderful presentation of the entire Zatoichi collection of films. Finally, I finished reading "The Winter People", a ghost story by Jennifer Mcmahon that I really enjoyed. Weaving the narrative of a...
- 3/9/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 26, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $224.95
Studio: Criterion
Shintaro Katsu relies on his blade in 1963's Zatoichi on the Road.
The colossally popular Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman action-adventure films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman.
As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.
The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall.
This deluxe set features the string of 25 Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.
Here’s a list of the films in the collection:
The Tale Of Zatoichi...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $224.95
Studio: Criterion
Shintaro Katsu relies on his blade in 1963's Zatoichi on the Road.
The colossally popular Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman action-adventure films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman.
As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.
The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall.
This deluxe set features the string of 25 Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.
Here’s a list of the films in the collection:
The Tale Of Zatoichi...
- 8/26/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Criterion has announced its upcoming November 2013 titles and they include some highly coveted films, one of 2013's better films, an impressive box set and their new dual-format DVD/Blu-ray releases. To begin, it was a little bit of a shock to see they have abandoned releasing both DVD and Blu-ray versions of their film and instead will now release DVD/Blu-ray, dual-format editions. Note here it says dual format "editions", not "discs", which leads me to believe most releases will include both a DVD and Blu-ray disc. Consider in today's announcement the 27-disc box set of the Zatoichi films. This consists of nine Blu-ray discs and 18 DVD discs. On top of that Criterion confirms features will be available for on both DVD and Blu-ray formats. As far as this months titles are concerned, I'll begin with the upgraded Blu-ray release of Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, which was the December 2012 selection...
- 8/15/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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