La leyenda de los ocho samuráis

La leyenda de los ocho samuráis (1983)

里見八犬伝

Una princesa y su banda de ocho samuráis, luchan contra una poderosa bruja y su ejército de fantasmas guerreros.

La familia de Shizu-hime (Hiroko Yakushimaru) es asesinada, pero ella escapa y es encontrada por el vagabundo Shinbei (Hiroyuki Sanada), antes de ser rescatada de sus perseguidores por Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba). Este le cuenta la historia sobre la maldición que acarrea su familia y la manera para vencerla: encontrar a los ocho guerreros-perro para poder destruir a la malvada reina Tamazusa (Mari Natsuki), responsable de la muerte de su familia. Sin embargo, al conocer la identidad de Shizu-hime, Shinbei intentará cobrar la recompensa por su captura.

Fecha de estreno
1983-12-10
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (36)
Duración
2 h 13 min
Géneros
Fantasía, Aventura, Acción
Director
Kinji Fukasaku

Reparto

Curiosidades

Legend of the Eight Samurai is a 1983 Japanese fantasy film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The script is adapted from Toshio Kamata's 1982 novel Shin Satomi Hakkenden (新・里見八犬伝), itself a loose reworking of the epic serial Nansō Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin.

Production

Legend of the Eight Samurai was influenced by Star Wars.

The film preserves little of the plot or characterization, and none of the feel of the Bakin original. Instead it builds on the basic template – collecting a band of warriors together to accomplish a task, better known from films such as Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Fantastical elements in the film are brought to life with a combination of props, wire work, and post-production special effects. The sequences were the work of the Tokusatsu Laboratory effects team, led by director Nobuo Yajima, who previously had worked on another adaptation of the Hakkenden story, Message From Space.

The colorful film score features a mixture of synthesizers and "real" strings produced by Nobody, and a couple of power ballads performed by John O'Banion: Satomi Hakkenden, composed by Joey Carbone and written by Kathi Pinto, and Hakkenshi no Tēma (White Light) (八剣士のテーマ), composed by Joey Carbone and Richie Zito, written by David Palmer. An LP of the music was released by Eastworld.

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