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All praise Grail
If you look at Mifune's filmography he was in almost every big Samurai movie hit for years. You can still catch samurai classics on IFC every Saturday morning, they also air, coincidently, samurai 7 the anime which is SO lame. And in my opinion the remake might be worth it if they did it like in the old days by making it into a western or something, as much as I love samurai pictures I still love the old spaghetti westerns. But to just blatinly remake a classic, I have to ask myself why? Why ruin such a groundbreaking film. It's like remaking the Wizard of Oz(which probably isn't far off) or another Kurosawa classic like Ikiru...o wait.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8079
Great article on American remakes.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8079
Great article on American remakes.