{"id":16632,"date":"2024-07-21T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16632"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:03:06","slug":"kubi-2023-takeshi-kitano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16632","title":{"rendered":"Kubi (2023, Takeshi Kitano)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I skipped the last couple Kitano movies – rude behavior to the great man after he gave us the commercial self-destruction trilogy – and am now delighted to discover that he’s still got it. This is an epic 1500’s warlord power-struggle story with about fifty characters, and he nearly keeps it to two hours without making the plot confusing (it really helps that they introduce and re-introduce everyone with onscreen titles). Plus it’s great-looking, fun, and full of beheadings and other gruesome stuff, and gleefully anachronistic – even not knowing any Japanese I can tell they’re conversing more like yakuza than samurai. But I didn’t realize until the name Hattori Hanzo came up that it’s based on real history – all these characters have wikipedia pages.<\/p>\n

Kubi means “neck”:<\/em>
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Kitano plays Monkey, the most degraded of the warlords until his plans and alliances come together at the end. He’s scheming with bald Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car<\/a><\/em> guy, Creepy<\/a><\/em> cop), who’s having a secret affair with rebel-in-hiding Kenichi Endo (a major Miike guy). They’re working under\/scheming against the current ruler Ryo Kase (an Outrage<\/a><\/em> lead). It’d take all day to name the rest of them but I’ll note that both leads of Ichi the Killer<\/em> are in here somewhere (psycho Tadanobu Asano plays a Kitano ally).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I skipped the last couple Kitano movies – rude behavior to the great man after he gave us the commercial self-destruction trilogy – and am now delighted to discover that he’s still got it. This is an epic 1500’s warlord power-struggle story with about fifty characters, and he nearly keeps it to two hours without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2448,36,1277,107],"class_list":["post-16632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-decapitation","tag-japan","tag-samurai","tag-takeshi-kitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}