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.It is, to my mind, the most thorough re-imagining of Kurosawa sclassic, at once simply a lengthy retelling (with added subplots) and acomplete re-conceptualisation.In its basic outline it reproduces thefundamental plot, the essential nature of the characters, and many ofthe basic thematic motifs and structures so fundamental to the successof the original.A farming village is imperiled by marauding formersamurai and, unable to defend themselves, they send a small group tothe nearby city to recruit samurai to their cause.The samurai theyrecruit undertake the mission for varied motivations, from sheer hero-ism, to a desire to prove oneself in combat, to the camaraderie amongwarriors or the desire to test oneself against impossible odds.The char-acters retain the same names in the anime as they do in the original andthey have many of the same characteristics.Kambei is the leader, firstmet as he rescues a child from a kidnapper.Initially reluctant to helpthe farmers, he is eventually won over to their cause and agrees torecruit other warriors.Katsushiro is the earnest, would-be samurai whobegs Kambei to take him on as a pupil; Kikuchiyo, the bombasticfighter more loud than he is skilled; Shichiroji is Kambei s old com-panion from a previous campaign; Kyuzo is the master swordsman,etc.13 The romantic attraction between a village girl and Katsushiro isalso reproduced, although, typical of anime, she is something of a mag-ical girl.The gradual formation of a relationship between protector andprotected, the development of a defensive strategy for the village, eventhe subplot of Rikichi s wife, are all reproduced.14It is not hard to see the appeal that Samurai 7 has to anime fans.Inre-imagining Kurosawa s original, the anime now belongs to the sci-figenre so typical of the form and, even more definitively, participates inthe prevalence for mecha the mechanical/technological hybridisationof the human body.The samurai fighter Kikuchiyo is a mecha-warrior,part man, mostly cyborg, while all of the bandits, called Nobuseri, areno longer human, having traded in their human bodies for android sta-tus.Similarly, the characters possess fighting skills and abilities far inexcess of even the most outrageous live action drama; indeed, the filmderives a lot of its fight choreography and picturization from post-1990sHong Kong martial arts movies.Character iconography is typical ofanime, too Kyuzo now sports blond hair while Katsushiro is highlyandrogynous, for instance.Yet fans of the samurai film will also profitfrom investing in this series.It wonderfully imagines medieval Japan in 02 EA Cinema_015-040 28/1/08 11:36 Page 3838 East Asian Cinemasa post-industrial landscape, with typical anime iconography drawnfrom Fritz Lang s Metropolis.And in its imaging of the bandits asmecha-warriors, can we not see an apt metaphor for a samurai s loss ofstatus, along with larger questions about what it means to be human ina chaotic, amoral world? Of course, this is precisely what Kurosawa sclassic original is about.Set in the future, Samurai 7 sees the world suf-fering after a massive war; set in the past, Seven Samurai was also abouta massive war, but was also clearly referencing a war more lately fought.If wars, and the men (and women) who fight in them, seem inevitablyto recur throughout history, perhaps Seven Samurai, one of the great-est films ever about war and how it is fought and died in, may similarlybe constantly remade.References12 See, for instance,3 See Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of theAmerican Frontier, 1600 1860.(Middleton, CT: Wesleyan UniversityPress, 1973), for an in-depth discussion of the significance of the captiv-ity narrative for the formation of a distinctly American literature andidentity [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.It is, to my mind, the most thorough re-imagining of Kurosawa sclassic, at once simply a lengthy retelling (with added subplots) and acomplete re-conceptualisation.In its basic outline it reproduces thefundamental plot, the essential nature of the characters, and many ofthe basic thematic motifs and structures so fundamental to the successof the original.A farming village is imperiled by marauding formersamurai and, unable to defend themselves, they send a small group tothe nearby city to recruit samurai to their cause.The samurai theyrecruit undertake the mission for varied motivations, from sheer hero-ism, to a desire to prove oneself in combat, to the camaraderie amongwarriors or the desire to test oneself against impossible odds.The char-acters retain the same names in the anime as they do in the original andthey have many of the same characteristics.Kambei is the leader, firstmet as he rescues a child from a kidnapper.Initially reluctant to helpthe farmers, he is eventually won over to their cause and agrees torecruit other warriors.Katsushiro is the earnest, would-be samurai whobegs Kambei to take him on as a pupil; Kikuchiyo, the bombasticfighter more loud than he is skilled; Shichiroji is Kambei s old com-panion from a previous campaign; Kyuzo is the master swordsman,etc.13 The romantic attraction between a village girl and Katsushiro isalso reproduced, although, typical of anime, she is something of a mag-ical girl.The gradual formation of a relationship between protector andprotected, the development of a defensive strategy for the village, eventhe subplot of Rikichi s wife, are all reproduced.14It is not hard to see the appeal that Samurai 7 has to anime fans.Inre-imagining Kurosawa s original, the anime now belongs to the sci-figenre so typical of the form and, even more definitively, participates inthe prevalence for mecha the mechanical/technological hybridisationof the human body.The samurai fighter Kikuchiyo is a mecha-warrior,part man, mostly cyborg, while all of the bandits, called Nobuseri, areno longer human, having traded in their human bodies for android sta-tus.Similarly, the characters possess fighting skills and abilities far inexcess of even the most outrageous live action drama; indeed, the filmderives a lot of its fight choreography and picturization from post-1990sHong Kong martial arts movies.Character iconography is typical ofanime, too Kyuzo now sports blond hair while Katsushiro is highlyandrogynous, for instance.Yet fans of the samurai film will also profitfrom investing in this series.It wonderfully imagines medieval Japan in 02 EA Cinema_015-040 28/1/08 11:36 Page 3838 East Asian Cinemasa post-industrial landscape, with typical anime iconography drawnfrom Fritz Lang s Metropolis.And in its imaging of the bandits asmecha-warriors, can we not see an apt metaphor for a samurai s loss ofstatus, along with larger questions about what it means to be human ina chaotic, amoral world? Of course, this is precisely what Kurosawa sclassic original is about.Set in the future, Samurai 7 sees the world suf-fering after a massive war; set in the past, Seven Samurai was also abouta massive war, but was also clearly referencing a war more lately fought.If wars, and the men (and women) who fight in them, seem inevitablyto recur throughout history, perhaps Seven Samurai, one of the great-est films ever about war and how it is fought and died in, may similarlybe constantly remade.References12 See, for instance,3 See Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of theAmerican Frontier, 1600 1860.(Middleton, CT: Wesleyan UniversityPress, 1973), for an in-depth discussion of the significance of the captiv-ity narrative for the formation of a distinctly American literature andidentity [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]