{"id":307,"date":"2021-05-31T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/?p=307"},"modified":"2021-06-07T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:43:03","slug":"sanjuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/2021\/05\/31\/sanjuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjuro &#8211; Delayed, possibly canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update: In spite of this being one of my favorite movies, we might have to delay or cancel this one altogether. We have a kid recovering from some significant (non-emergency) surgery, and I think it&#8217;s going to take a little longer to recover than I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of my favorite Kurosawa movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/51RW1R3fWvL._AC_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/51RW1R3fWvL._AC_.jpg 338w, https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/51RW1R3fWvL._AC_-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption>Sanjuro, dir. Akira Kurosawa, Starring Toshiro Mifune<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s start out talking about Akira Kurosawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born in 1910, and his first movies were released in wartime Japan. After the war, Kurosawa continued making films, and he didn&#8217;t always make happy films that depicted a happy Japan. His first collaboration with Toshiro Mifune was <em>Drunken Angel<\/em>, which portrayed a struggling post-war Japan rife with yakuza and afflicted by TB from stagnant water. Not the cheerful vision of post-war that the occupation forces hoped to express, and yet <em>Drunken Angel<\/em> is a riveting film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kurosawa made several films in the Jidaigeki tradition. <em>Hidden Fortress<\/em> is an epic story of a family who gets caught up in a war and wiped out. This movie is the direct inspiration for Star Wars, but I would argue that Lucas borrowed from many of Kurasawa&#8217;s films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The character of Han Solo definitely seems to be modeled after the hero of Sanjuro. A disreputable <em>ronin<\/em>, we first see Sanjuro Tsubaki (not his real name) homeless and sleeping in a forest temple. He&#8217;s definitely a scoundrel, but he can also be &#8220;a nice guy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SANJURO Trailer (1962) - The Criterion Collection\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uq_rSsbhQnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This movie is in some ways critical of the jidaigeki genre. While we have dashing moments of swashbuckling swordplay, we also have a sad reminder of the real costs of violence at the end of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you can catch this movie with us on June 12th!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: In spite of this being one of my favorite movies, we might have to delay or cancel this one altogether. We have a kid recovering from some significant (non-emergency) surgery, and I think it&#8217;s going to take a little longer to recover than I thought. This is one of my favorite Kurosawa movies. So&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/2021\/05\/31\/sanjuro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanjuro &#8211; Delayed, possibly canceled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,8],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-sanjuro","tag-screening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinnen.us\/bigsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}