1. Kihachi Okamoto | Japan - The Guardian
18 mrt 2005 · Kihachi Okamoto, who has died of cancer of the oesophagus, aged 82, was among the least known of postwar directors in the west.
Obituary: Japanese film director renowned for his studies of militarism.
2. The Kihachi Okamoto Touch - Nihon Cine Art
23 okt 2011 · Okamoto Kihachi died on february 19, 2005. ... They simply wanted to insure a financial success or rather, avoid losing money on a flop.
By Christoph Terhechte Photographs of the director at work already spark curiosity about his films. Slender, casually dressed, with alert, i...
3. Okamoto Kihachi (岡本喜八) - MyDramaList
Okamoto Kihachi ; Also Known as: おかもと きはち ; Nationality: Japanese ; Gender: Male ; Born: February 17, 1924 ; Died: February 19, 2005.
Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into...
4. Samurai Assassin | Screen Slate
2 mrt 2022 · Next to Akira Kurosawa, the second-most represented director in Film Forum's thirty-three-film Toshiro Mifune retrospective is Kihachi Okamoto ...
Next to Akira Kurosawa, the second-most represented director in Film Forum’s thirty-three-film Toshiro Mifune retrospective is Kihachi Okamoto, a fellow Toho studio stalwart who worked across many genres but made a name for himself as a specialist in action films with exceptionally well-choreographed violence. Of these, The Sword of Doom—his 1966 adaptation of the popular Daibosatsu Toge story starring Tatsuya Nakadai—remains the most well-known abroad.
5. The Kihachi Okamoto Touch - Make Mine Criterion! - WordPress.com
11 apr 2013 · The four films collected here each bear the mark of Okamoto's idiosyncratic style, employing elegant camerawork, black humor, and up-tempo, rhythmic montage.
Eclipse is a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics in simple, affordable editions. Each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer. Kihachi Okamo…
6. Kill! - Japan Society
Kill! — Japan Society — MONTHLY CLASSICS open_in_new 『斬る』 In-Person Screening Friday, September 2 at 7 pm Kihachi Okamoto's darkly satirical chambara ...
MONTHLY CLASSICS open_in_new 『斬る』 In-Person Screening Friday, September 2 at 7 pm Kihachi Okamoto’s darkly satirical chambara opens in the midst of a
7. Kill! (斬る, Kihachi Okamoto, 1968) - Windows on Worlds
30 aug 2022 · An ambitious farmer and former samurai turned wandering yakuza are swept into intrigue when seven samurai arrive to bump off a corrupt lord ...
An ambitious farmer and former samurai turned wandering yakuza are swept into intrigue when seven samurai arrive to bump off a corrupt lord in Kihachi Okamoto’s absurdist jidaigeki.
8. TSPDT - Kihachi Okamoto
Kihachi Okamoto. This director's page has not been developed. Google ... Billionaire (GF-18101). 1934 - Liliom (GF-10623). 1934 - Little Man, What Now ...
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is dedicated to the art of motion picture film-making and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.
9. Blu-ray Review: Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom on the Criterion ...
9 jan 2015 · Blu-ray Review: Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom on the Criterion Collection. The wonderful new audio commentary nearly serves to distract ...
The wonderful new audio commentary nearly serves to distract from the image transfer, which is sporadically gorgeous, but inconsistent.
10. The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963) - Letterboxd
Kihachi Okamoto is known mostly as an action specialist so it is no surprise this has fallen into obscurity, but it should be near the top of the Japanese New ...
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
11. The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Kihachi Okamoto, 1963)
12 apr 2013 · Everyman, based on the popular magazine series by Hitomi Yamaguchi. Its main character, Eburi (a role that would define Kobayashi Keiju's career) ...
Tokyo ad-man Eburi drunkenly vows to a pair of magazine editors that he will write them a masterpiece. Once sober, Eburi commits himself to his promise, writing a novella using himself and his ten…
12. the absurdity of war according to Kihachi Okamoto - Nippon-Kino
The Nippon-kino.net seminar paper about the war films of Kihachi Okamoto (english).
13. The Elegant Life Of Mr. Everyman (1963) - Internet Archive
15 mei 2021 · Everyman (1963). by: Kihachi Okamoto. Publication date: 1963. Topics: film, cinema, movie, japanese cinema. Item Size: 1.7G . Addeddate: 2021-05 ...
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14. Film Analysis: Blue Christmas (1978) by Kihachi Okamoto
22 dec 2023 · While the picture was initially a critical and financial failure upon release, it went on to gain a cult following. Nowadays, the film is ...
Discriminative paranoia escalates to destructive dehumanization. Film Analysis: Blue Christmas (1978) by Kihachi Okamoto
15. The Human Bullet (1968) directed by Kihachi Okamoto • Reviews, film + ...
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered.
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
