Eiichi Kudo isn't a name that comes up too often when the casual film fan talks about the great Japanese directors. However, with the recent huge success of Takashi Miike's remake of Kudo's 13 Assassins, he's undergone something of a reexamination among film fans, and who is there is provide us with more fuel for the fire but the ever dependable AnimEigo. Last month the indie label released Kudo's original 13 Assassins on DVD for the first time in the Us, and this month they continue with his follow up to that masterpiece, The Great Killing, which is pretty spectacular on its own.The similarities between The Thirteen Assassins and The Great Killing are difficult to avoid. We have a group of rogue samurai and others...
- 6/29/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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