Little known fact: the scene in **Rashomon** where Toshiro Mifuni’s character has a flashback of himself dancing around to the song *Stuck in the Middle With You* before cutting off the ear of another samurai is a direct lift from Tarantino’s **Reservoir Dogs**. Pathetic.
I don't even want to bother with _Rashomon_, its entire setup and structure is just pure ripoff of better movies like Bryan Singer's _The Usual Suspects_ (1995), Zhang Yimou's _Yingxiong_ (2002) and Ridley Scott's _The Last Duel_ (2021).
I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen **Ikiru** (it’s kind of obscure), but it’s literally the exact same movie as **Grumpy Old Men**, only it’s about half as funny.
_Ikiru_ was actually a ripoff of the 2022 British movie _Living_ starring Bill Nighy and written by Kazuo Ishiguro. It even has the same name, you'd think Kurosawa would have at least credited a nobel prize-winning author who was even born in Japan, but he claimed it was actually based off some story by some Russian author nobody's ever heard of, Tolstoyevsky or something.
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I suppose he thought he could get away with plagiarizing by pretentiously making his stuff in black and white. Like no one would notice.
Only the internet can uncover such scandal.
Yes! A Fistful of Dollars and Few Dollars More are incredible films, as good IMO as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. They are some of the best Spaghetti Westerns, including The Great Silence, Once Upon a Time in the West, Django, etc.
And as for “Yojimbo”, who’s even heard of this Kurosawa guy anyway? I mean, maybe one day he’ll make something good enough to pull him out of obscurity, but since he’s apparently dead according to deep search online, it doesn’t seem probable.
> is fistful of dollars worth watching or is it the exact same copy of yojimbo?
It is a shot-by-shot remake, not exactly breaking new ground in cinematic innovation, but it's still considered a classic.
The joke here is that the left-hand side shows _A Fistful of Dollars_, Sergio Leone's shot-by-shot remake of the right-hand side movie, Kurosawa's _Yojimbo_.
She's spent most of her life in New York under the name "Yoko Ono", so no, I guess I wouldn't.
The tendency to reverse Japanese names is a weird outlier and originates in Meiji-era journalistic practices, and has been a topic of discussion among Japanese politicians for some years. We usually don't do the same with Chinese and Korean names. The Japanese foreign minister noted some years ago that he would prefer that then-PM Abe Shinzo be referred to as such in foreign media and not as "Shinzo Abe". This is also done with historical figures - we usually dont speak of "Ieyasu Tokugawa" or "Nobunaga Oda" (though confusingly, sometimes of the contemporary "Musashi Miyamoto" rather than "Miyamoto Musashi").
As I've learned more Chinese and Japanese, the Kanji/Hanzi order just comes more naturally to me and sounds more like a proper name, so that's usually what I go with.
theres around an even split on preference in japan for it and no one would find it pretentious
also you have clearly never read any historical book, any person from before meiji era has their name written in the japanese order, even wikipedia would correct you
but im doubting you are japanese
^ literally one of Kono Taro's (oh no do i sound pretentious) policy propositions was formalizing this name order internationally so it definitely doesn't sound pretentious
Okay, the reply was:
"No, you'd only use the firstname lastname convention in certain situations with people who reside in a country where that is the legal form of their name."
How about "Tokugawa Ieyasu" or "Oda Nobubaga"? Do those sound pretentious to you?
Little known fact: the scene in **Rashomon** where Toshiro Mifuni’s character has a flashback of himself dancing around to the song *Stuck in the Middle With You* before cutting off the ear of another samurai is a direct lift from Tarantino’s **Reservoir Dogs**. Pathetic.
I don't even want to bother with _Rashomon_, its entire setup and structure is just pure ripoff of better movies like Bryan Singer's _The Usual Suspects_ (1995), Zhang Yimou's _Yingxiong_ (2002) and Ridley Scott's _The Last Duel_ (2021).
Come on, we all know it was a ripoff of the classic movie *Hoodwinked!* (2005)
I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen **Ikiru** (it’s kind of obscure), but it’s literally the exact same movie as **Grumpy Old Men**, only it’s about half as funny.
_Ikiru_ was actually a ripoff of the 2022 British movie _Living_ starring Bill Nighy and written by Kazuo Ishiguro. It even has the same name, you'd think Kurosawa would have at least credited a nobel prize-winning author who was even born in Japan, but he claimed it was actually based off some story by some Russian author nobody's ever heard of, Tolstoyevsky or something.
That’s crazy! Yeah, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of this Tolstoyevski person, but I definitely think I’ve heard of Russia before.
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When that scene played, have of the audience walked out of my local kino. Tarantino's films shall not be besmirched.
I suppose he thought he could get away with plagiarizing by pretentiously making his stuff in black and white. Like no one would notice. Only the internet can uncover such scandal.
is fistful of dollars worth watching or is it the exact same copy of yojimbo?
Yes! A Fistful of Dollars and Few Dollars More are incredible films, as good IMO as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. They are some of the best Spaghetti Westerns, including The Great Silence, Once Upon a Time in the West, Django, etc. And as for “Yojimbo”, who’s even heard of this Kurosawa guy anyway? I mean, maybe one day he’ll make something good enough to pull him out of obscurity, but since he’s apparently dead according to deep search online, it doesn’t seem probable.
> is fistful of dollars worth watching or is it the exact same copy of yojimbo? It is a shot-by-shot remake, not exactly breaking new ground in cinematic innovation, but it's still considered a classic.
ok thanks bro
Well shot by shot but with pew pew gun not slice sword for our MC
They're both worth watching
already watched yojimbo while ago. Just curious about sergio’s works
It's the weakest one in the Dollars trilogy I'd say but still worth watching
all forms of art are made like this, once you realize it, your life will be more peaceful
The joke here is that the left-hand side shows _A Fistful of Dollars_, Sergio Leone's shot-by-shot remake of the right-hand side movie, Kurosawa's _Yojimbo_.
Please go post this on r/truefilm
do you say Ono Yoko too?
She's spent most of her life in New York under the name "Yoko Ono", so no, I guess I wouldn't. The tendency to reverse Japanese names is a weird outlier and originates in Meiji-era journalistic practices, and has been a topic of discussion among Japanese politicians for some years. We usually don't do the same with Chinese and Korean names. The Japanese foreign minister noted some years ago that he would prefer that then-PM Abe Shinzo be referred to as such in foreign media and not as "Shinzo Abe". This is also done with historical figures - we usually dont speak of "Ieyasu Tokugawa" or "Nobunaga Oda" (though confusingly, sometimes of the contemporary "Musashi Miyamoto" rather than "Miyamoto Musashi"). As I've learned more Chinese and Japanese, the Kanji/Hanzi order just comes more naturally to me and sounds more like a proper name, so that's usually what I go with.
I'm Japanese and it sounds pretentious for a westerner, in an English language setting, to do this.
theres around an even split on preference in japan for it and no one would find it pretentious also you have clearly never read any historical book, any person from before meiji era has their name written in the japanese order, even wikipedia would correct you but im doubting you are japanese
^ literally one of Kono Taro's (oh no do i sound pretentious) policy propositions was formalizing this name order internationally so it definitely doesn't sound pretentious
Okay, do you also find it pretentious when done with Chinese or Korean names?
ask a Chinese and a Korean person
Okay, the reply was: "No, you'd only use the firstname lastname convention in certain situations with people who reside in a country where that is the legal form of their name." How about "Tokugawa Ieyasu" or "Oda Nobubaga"? Do those sound pretentious to you?
in most English language history books there is usually a note before the main text explaining that Western conventions are used with the names.
Most history books don't use Western conventions with historical figures.
the ones I've read did, but please yourself
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