but few display them as proudly as Sony’s exclusive “Ghost of Tsushima,” an experience built more on the way samurai culture has been portrayed in cinema than anything else. The filmic influence on the developers of this game is so prominent that the entire experience can play out in som...
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Many films in the samurai genre center the drama around their code of ethics and the moral and political implications of going against them. The same is true inGhost of Tsushima, when he questions his order’s code of ethics and its ability to fight off the Mongol invasion. The same is ...
You can see this keenly in Western cinema through films like The Magnificent Seven, whose narrative was largely inspired by Seven Samurai. Or even A Fistful of Dollars, a Western epic that cleaved so closely to Kurosawa’s Yojimbo that director Sergio Leone ended up in a lawsuit with Toho ...
Japanese historical sword fighting expert with us in the mocap suit, helping capture this stuff, was really instrumental to that. You can see the sense of punctuated motion. You have this very iconic rhythm of pose, move, pose. If you watch samurai cinema you associate that...
The Art of the Duel One-on-one duels are where Ghost of Tsushima shines brightest. The slow, tense moments before a fight, the dramatic camera angles, and the precise, brutal combat all scream classic samurai cinema. These aren’t chaotic button-mashing fights; they demand skill, patience,...
The combat in Ghost of Tsushima is some of the most satisfying I’ve played in a game since Dark Souls III, and the influence of samurai cinema is evident throughout.
The game takes obvious inspiration from Japanese cinema, and I could easily imagine Jin in a Kurosawa film. Although some journalists accused the developers of cultural appropriation, Ghost of Tsushima seemed to resonate with Japanese fans. 3 Danjuro Kabuki Far East of Eden Series Far East of ...
At time of recording, it was ranked the 19th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Continue reading → Filed under: The 250 | Tagged: akira kurosawa, chris lavery, films, influence, japan, japanese cinema, samurai, Seven Samurai, westerns | Leave a comment » Recent...
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