Foreign Films etc

[Trinityz1]

What really got us started was the Zatoichi films seeing them on IFC.

I've even got some of the TV series

and I just ordered a kind of prequel with Shintaro Katsu, the star
where he plays a blind masseur that's a bad guy, so looking forward to that

and of course we have the couple of newer ones without Katsu
there's one called Ichi where it a gal playing what we believe to be the daughter of Ichi

and of course 7 Samurai, The Street Fighter series, Toshiro Mifune in the Sword trilogy is terrific

IFC and the Sundance channel give a good taste of some foreign films
not only do you get a taste of other cultures such as it is on film
but you get some new and quite different
casts of thousands even sometimes

Jet Li in the Once Upon A Time in China series

and of course it's not unusual to see long epics and movies that over two hours
so you get your money's worth in a DVD