09-03-2023, 10:49 PM
And now it gets confusing.
I’ve been tuned into a YouTube channel called ‘Samurai vs Ninja’ with vintage Japanese jidaigeki tv shows lately and I just found another called ‘Ninja vs Samurai’. They have the 2002-2004 TV series, which hasn’t been shown in the US before. It’s not Wakayama as Itto. But I just watched the first ep and it wasn’t bad. Some decent swordfights - in fact, it opens with a decent oner where Itto cuts down like a dozen samurai. His sword work is good, but so far I feel Wakayama was better than this new guy - Kinya Kitaoji - but the new guy has decent gravitas, yet not as grave an expression. It’s not as ridiculously bloody either, which isn’t to say it’s not bloody, it’s just ones down for TV. So far, so good.
I’ll watch more.
Here’s the channel - lots of other stuff there too but I’ve got plenty to watch now in the chanbara genre.
I’ve been tuned into a YouTube channel called ‘Samurai vs Ninja’ with vintage Japanese jidaigeki tv shows lately and I just found another called ‘Ninja vs Samurai’. They have the 2002-2004 TV series, which hasn’t been shown in the US before. It’s not Wakayama as Itto. But I just watched the first ep and it wasn’t bad. Some decent swordfights - in fact, it opens with a decent oner where Itto cuts down like a dozen samurai. His sword work is good, but so far I feel Wakayama was better than this new guy - Kinya Kitaoji - but the new guy has decent gravitas, yet not as grave an expression. It’s not as ridiculously bloody either, which isn’t to say it’s not bloody, it’s just ones down for TV. So far, so good.
I’ll watch more.
Here’s the channel - lots of other stuff there too but I’ve got plenty to watch now in the chanbara genre.
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