Takashi Miike films

[Drunk Monk]

There's a few old Samurai-to-Westerns:
Yojimbo > Fist Full of Dollars
Seven Samurai > Magnificent Seven
Goyokin > The Master Gunfighter
So these Samurai Cowboy flicks are amusing to me.

Here's another coming soon:

Jang Dong Gun is the Laundry Warrior
27 CommentsEunice C in Media | 29 Jan 2009 - 12:31 PM

Jang Dong Gun, famous for movies like Chingoo (Friend), Taeguki, and Typhoon, will make his Hollywood debut alongside Kate Bosworth and Geoffery Rush.

I'm not too sure about the Premise. The Premise sounds like a mix between the Postman and Appaloosa. It's a fantasy action film about a warrior/assassin who is forced to hide in a western town and runs into the town drunkard, Geoffrey Rush, and a circus knife thrower played by Kate Bosworth.

He's probably an offstandish quiet Asian man with a murderous dark past who "ever so conveniently" hides in a LAUNDRY store and just wants to be left alone but somehow is forced to form a totally random crime-fighting gang to defend his little town against villainous encroachers.

Impressively, it's produced by Barrie Osborne who also produced Lord of the Rings. (Poor Barrie, don't worry, DAEBAK ee-yah~~!)

Production started on November 12, 2007 and wrapped on February 28, 2008 in Auckland and the movie is set to release in March of this year. Just a couple of months to go... let's all get in line for this! Can't Wait!

http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/full_st...y_warrior/