SANJURO (1962) Kurosawa had wanted to make a film based on Shuguro Yamamoto’s story “Peaceful Days” before he made Yojimbo. With the massive success of Yojimbo, the screenplay adaptation of “Peaceful Days” was reworked to be Sanjuro, the continuing adventures of Toshiro Mifune’s wandering ronin. Kurosawa, ultimately took over the job of directing the film, …
In an age well before modern fantasy and science fiction, we turned to the mythological epic to sate our curiosity about the world around us and all of the things that we don’t understand about it. The ancient myths of Greece are among the most revered of these tales, and it is with true reverence …
Sinbad opens with the sailor tightly gripping the ship’s wheel, his gaze hypnotic. The men are hungry and nervous but have faith in their captain. To be merely lost and low on supplies is misery enough, but these are haunted, mysterious waters. Despite the fog surrounding his vessel, he’s able to maintain course, wherever he …
“Keep watching the skies” was the call for action at the end of The Thing from Another World, but for most of the 1950s, science fiction menaces came in a decidedly different fashion. Those threats would emerge from beneath the oceans, out of the southwest deserts where nuclear testing was being performed, or would covertly …