zatoichi (redux)
(I originally posted this in 2004. Now I can add the film clip so that you can appreciate it.)
My darling dear husband likes to watch movies. But. He has very specific taste. He likes foreign films -- especially if there is a chance that the occasional breast may be exposed. He likes "shoot em ups" --especially if there is a damsel in distress. He enjoys science fantasy. He is something of a star wars geek (but not like those guys who dress up and go to conventions). He will even fall, every once in a while, for a chick flick. I guess that doesn't seem so specific now that I have listed them.
Anyway.
Saturday he sat down --okay, actually we were in our bed and it was only about 9:00 -- and began watching Zatoichi.
Lots of killing with spraying blood (spraying cgi blood if you must get technical) and grunting and corpses.
JUST MY KIND OF MOVIE.
Sooo, I decided to read a bit, which was kind of hard because that book, Old School, that I was supposed to be reading for book club BITES, and because I was getting a wee bit sleepy.
We both fell asleep.
AND WOKE UP TO?
The entire cast of said Japanese slasher movie TAP DANCING.
A MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA!
We looked at each other in amazement, looked at the television in amazement, and promptly shut it off and slept till morning.
The next day, K mentions that he is going to have to finish watching that movie cause, he's not sure, but he thinks it ended with a musical number...and whaddya know, IT DOES.
My darling dear husband likes to watch movies. But. He has very specific taste. He likes foreign films -- especially if there is a chance that the occasional breast may be exposed. He likes "shoot em ups" --especially if there is a damsel in distress. He enjoys science fantasy. He is something of a star wars geek (but not like those guys who dress up and go to conventions). He will even fall, every once in a while, for a chick flick. I guess that doesn't seem so specific now that I have listed them.
Anyway.
Saturday he sat down --okay, actually we were in our bed and it was only about 9:00 -- and began watching Zatoichi.
Lots of killing with spraying blood (spraying cgi blood if you must get technical) and grunting and corpses.
JUST MY KIND OF MOVIE.
Sooo, I decided to read a bit, which was kind of hard because that book, Old School, that I was supposed to be reading for book club BITES, and because I was getting a wee bit sleepy.
We both fell asleep.
AND WOKE UP TO?
The entire cast of said Japanese slasher movie TAP DANCING.
A MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA!
We looked at each other in amazement, looked at the television in amazement, and promptly shut it off and slept till morning.
The next day, K mentions that he is going to have to finish watching that movie cause, he's not sure, but he thinks it ended with a musical number...and whaddya know, IT DOES.
Comments
classic japanese martial arts about a blind swordsman. higly reccomended, the wife's (the martial artist) favorite series.
b
Stop
Laughing
I kept waiting for Michael Flatley to vault himself into the center...
Well, now it's gone all Slo-Mo. Oy, my aching plantar faciitis.
K
I know its not PC, but why start now.