Inspired by It's a Summer Film, I was feeling like a jidaigeki (samurai) movie today. I think I had Sword of Desperation on my list for a long time but could not find it in my movie portable HD. I checked my external HD and the movie was not there which was odd. I searched my blog and lo and behold, I had actually watched and reviewed in 2012!
This hit me with 2 thoughts: Firstly I have watched so many jmovies/jdoramas that I have forgotten so many of them and secondly, what other movies have I lost? I looked for The Last Ronin and it was also missing from both my HDs and I also watched it in 2012. Maybe something happened to one of my HDs in 2012 that I don't remember anymore.
The other thing I noticed while looking for Sword of Desperation and The Last Ronin is that I have so many old jmovies in dvd aka 480 format with cd1 and cd2 folders lol. I have rewatched Twilight Samurai many times but I definitely need to find at least a 1080p for that classic movie and definitely GS Wonderland. Even if I had not lost the above mentioned movies, they would have been 480p anyways. Time to update my jmovies and make sure I do not lose any this time.
Have you tried Hissatsu Shigotonin - the most recent ones with Higashiyama Noriyuki in the lead role ? It's one-off specials ( and a series from 2009 ) rather than a film. Each episode follows the same basic structure, but the characters are great, it satisfies that period feel and the bad guys get their comeuppance.
ReplyDelete@Shuji: I have not seen Hissatsu Shigotonin. Looks like avistaz has the 2009 series. Hhm.
ReplyDelete