Kill!

Kill!

Infobox_Film
name = Kill!


imdb_id = 0063186
director = Kihachi Okamoto
writer = Shugoro Yamamoto
Akira Murao
Kihachi Okamoto
starring = Tatsuya Nakadai
Etsushi Takahashi
Naoko Kubo
Shigeru Kôyama
producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
music = Masaru Satô
cinematography = Rokuro Nishigaki
distributor = Toho Company Ltd.
released = June 22, 1968 (Japanese release)
runtime = 115 min.
language = Japanese

nihongo|"Kill!"|斬る|Kiru is a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, written by Akira Murao, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shugoro Yamamoto and starring Tatsuya Nakadai.

Cast

*Tatsuya Nakadai .... Genta (Hyodo Yagenta)
*Etsushi Takahashi .... Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)
*Naoko Kubo .... Tetsutaro Oikawa
*Shigeru Kôyama .... Ayuzama
*Akira Kubo .... Monnosuke Takei
*Seishiro Kuno .... Daijiro Masataka
*Tadao Nakamaru .... Shoda Magobei
*Eijirô Tono .... Moriuchi Hiyogo
*Isao Hashimoto .... Konosuke Fujii
*Yoshio Tsuchiya .... Matsuo Shiroku

Synopsis

Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering "yakuza" (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai to escape his powerless existence. Genta and Tabata wind up on opposite sides of clan intrigue when seven members of a local clan assassinate their chancellor. Although the seven, led by Tetsutaro Oikawa (Naoko Kubo) rebelled with the support of their superior, Ayuzama (Shigeru Kôyama), he turns on them and sends members of the clan to kill them as outlaws.

The film is a comically exaggerated exploration of what it is to be a samurai. The characters in the movie either give up samurai status or fight to attain it, and samurai are seen behaving both honorably and very badly. The film has a parodic tone, with numerous references to earlier samurai films. [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=313&eid=440&section=essay]

Trivia

*Kill! is based on Shugoro Yamamoto's novel "Peaceful Days", the same source as for Akira Kurosawa's "Sanjuro".
*The film shares some common scenes (for example, the beating scene) with Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars", which was in turn inspired by Kurosawa's "Yojimbo".

External links

*imdb title|id=0063186|title=Kill!
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=313&eid=440&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Howard Hampton]
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=313&eid=449&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Chris D.]
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