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Postby JasonPratt » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:38 am

...would anyone here happen to be interested in (or know about already) the LIVE ACTION MOVIE featuring the (I think more-or-less historical) character upon whom Jin'e was based?

(Even better, it co-stars Toshiro Mifune as a good-guy, though I don't recall them ever fighting really. Possibly it was intended for the sequel--I understand there was a series of these movies made, but so far I've only found the first one released for English.)


It's a lot like watching the Trust/Betryal OVA, except giving what is (in essence) Jin'e's backstory instead of Kenshin's.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:57 am

Ooh, that's pretty cool. :D The Jin'e mini-arc was one of my favorites, and it was really those two episodes that sucked me into the series for good. :)
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Postby Heart of Sword » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:58 am

Hmm, maybe, if he looks like Jin'e... XD
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Postby JasonPratt » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:24 am

Yes, he looks like Jin'e at least once in the film. (Keeping in mind that in both the main series and Reflections, Jin'e looks rather non-oriental.)

There is one scene in the movie in particular, which is _classic_ Kurogasa (Black hat): a bunch of assassins are shuffling down a snowy night street, trying to sneak up on their prey while still being inconspicuous, and meanwhile he's just walking cooly up the street with that hat on, a black silouhette on snow.

Plus, when he goes crazy and starts killing off his Shinsengumi comrades at an inn, his eyes go kind of buggy... {g} (Okay, that may not quite count. It's the _story_ where the parallels are obvious, especially toward the end.)


Now that I think of it, you'd think there's a chance Saito or Okita would have at least a cameo near the end (I don't know which squad Jin'e was supposed to have been a part of--maybe the 2nd one? {g}) But they may factor as characters into the sequel.


Meanwhile, I am reminded by a note on my desk (i.e. to find the movie if I can) that... ah, another thread topic. {g}


PS: while neither Okita nor Saito seem to be in the movie, the leaders of the other squad of Shinsengumi (Kondo and the corrupt Serizawa whom Kondo kills and replaces) do make appearances, according to the imdb credit list. Kondo is the one who is played by Mifune in the Shinsengumi film he himself produced, which I mentioned in the next thread.

"Jin'e"'s real name in the film is Ryunosuke Tsukue. The film is based on what seems to be the second-longest novel in Japan, and was originally intended to be the first of a film trilogy. (I recall hearing the other films _were_ made, but can't turn up any information on that now. It's been a couple of years since I bought the film, though I think it's been re-released by Criterion recently, the company who distributes Kurosawa's films in the US.)
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Through all the fire and the smoke,
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if we can win,
the Earth will survive--
we'll keep peace alive!" -- from the English lyrics to the closing theme of _Space Battleship Yamato_


"It _was_ harsh. Mirei didn't have anything that would soften it either." -- the surprisingly astute (I might even call it inspired {s!}) theological conclusion to Marie Brennan's _Doppleganger_ (Warner-Aspect, April 2006)
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Postby rurouninaruto » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:01 am

Awsome! =) Jin-e is totally twisted
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:39 am

I'll be looking forward to this...
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Postby jon_jinn » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:04 am

jin-e's tight! he's so freaky...
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Postby JasonPratt » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:38 am

And the answer is:

_Sword of Doom_.

I'll post up a new thread for answering the question, too, along with some more info about the film.
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our home
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We must make
the fighting cease,
so Mother Earth
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the Earth will survive--
we'll keep peace alive!" -- from the English lyrics to the closing theme of _Space Battleship Yamato_


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Postby That Dude » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:35 pm

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