CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hey I was wondering if any of you guys have seen this? It looks really cool but I'm not sure about the contents...It has to deal with the mob and is rated 16+ for violence and language. I was wondering if there was any other objectionable content. Thanks...

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Yes, it's old, but it's the only thread I could find. I too am wondering about content, seeing as I just purchased the complete series. I've checked our reviews, and a few other review sites, but I couldn't find anything.. Any help would be appreciated. =)

All I can tell you is, the Kurosawa film that it is apparently based upon (which is named just Yojimbo) is greatness. I haven't seen the anime but I strongly recommend the original.

EricTheFred (post: 1262832) wrote:All I can tell you is, the Kurosawa film that it is apparently based upon (which is named just Yojimbo) is greatness. I haven't seen the anime but I strongly recommend the original.

Alright, then here's another question.. How's the content in the original? I've been looking for some more movies to put in the Netflix queue..

I love that movie! There is some language in the orginal (Kurosawa movie) but nothing stuck out as absolutely horrible. There might have been a slight bit of blood, bu not much. One guy loses his arm, and this dog carries around a hand that's been chopped off. There's also a woman who is married to a man, but is beng held captive by one of the crime bosses. You get the idea that he has his way with her, but there is nothing shown and I don't think it went into too much detail. There's alot of hacking and slashing, but, again, it's not super bloody. I ould highly recommend seeing the Kurosawa film.
What's fun is to atch this, and then "Fistful of Dollars" which was essentially a westernized remake.
But....there's an anime based off the movie? I didn't know that!

KagayakiWashi (post: 1262860) wrote:I love that movie! There is some language in the orginal (Kurosawa movie) but nothing stuck out as absolutely horrible. There might have been a slight bit of blood, bu not much. One guy loses his arm, and this dog carries around a hand that's been chopped off. There's also a woman who is married to a man, but is beng held captive by one of the crime bosses. You get the idea that he has his way with her, but there is nothing shown and I don't think it went into too much detail. There's alot of hacking and slashing, but, again, it's not super bloody. I ould highly recommend seeing the Kurosawa film.
What's fun is to atch this, and then "Fistful of Dollars" which was essentially a westernized remake.
But....there's an anime based off the movie? I didn't know that!

I did a little research out of curiousity, and found it described as a 'Modern Era Version' of roughly the same plot, with some additional filler plotlines to make it last 26 episodes. Since the original is period drama (basically a samurai flick, although set later than most) I guess you can't call it the same.

I'm going to have to go look for the anime, now. My curiousity is aroused.

It's interesting how these things go back and forth between the West and Asia. Kurosawa says he derived his story off an American novel set in the gangland thirties. (In addition, I personally believe he must have been strongly influenced by "High Noon") In return, film historians credit this film and 'Seven Samurai' (another Kurosawa great) with having inspired basically the entire Spaghetti Western era, and in particular the 'Man with No Name' movies (like Fistful of Dollars) and the Magnificent Seven. (For those that don't know "Yojimbo", it's the basic 'nameless stranger rides into town and takes up for the distressed townspeople' plot, except when Kurosawa did it, it hadn't already been done to death.)