La Légende des huit samouraïs

La Légende des huit samouraïs (1983)

里見八犬伝

Matofuji lance son assaut contre le château du Seigneur Satomi. La princesse Shizu parvient à s'enfuir et échappe au massacre. Elle trouve alors refuge dans la forêt où elle découvre la légende des huit samouraïs. Une très ancienne croyance selon laquelle huit boules de cristal ramèneraient à la vie huit mystérieux samouraïs...

Date de sortie
1983-12-10
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (36)
Durée
2 h 13 min
Genres
Fantastique, Aventure, Action
Réalisateur
Kinji Fukasaku

Distribution

Anecdotes

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.

Lire sur Wikipédia · Texte de Wikipédia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Données de Wikidata.

Recommandés