I haven't seen any of those flims yet, but I'm sure I'll get to them.
I'm a fan of the Japanese gangster flick. I just got Kurosawa's Stray
Dog in the mail from Netflix today.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> Nathan, I'll see your additions of Tokyo Drifter and Youth of the Beast, the
> latter a variation on the Red Harvest/Yojimbo plot. And I'll raise you
> Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer and Tattooed Life. I'd also recommend the Yakuza
> films of his contemporary, Kenji Fukasaku. Graveyard of Honor and Street
> Mobster are particularly noir.
>
> Apparently there are plenty of yakuza novels in Japan. I wish some would be
> translated. I'd like to check them out.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Cain
> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 9:04 AM
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: an intro and a question
>
> I meant Youth of the Beast. That's the name of the film. Also, I
> meant "recommend."
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Nathan Cain <indiecrime@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll second the endorsement of both Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter,
>> and further reccomdend Life of the Beast, another or Suzuki's films.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can't really help you with the book about the contract killer with the
>>> samurai code, but it sounds like something I'd like to read.
>>> As for the others, Ross Thomas rules.
>>> As for Melville, be sure to check out Le Doulous.
>>> If you like Ghost Dog, check out Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill, one of
>>> the
>>> influences on it (you'll recognize a scene Jarmusch cribs). His Tokyo
>>> Drifter ain't bad either.
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>>>> From: zoebleck@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:05:29 +0000
>>>> Subject: RARA-AVIS: an intro and a question
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've been lurking for a few weeks--joined because I was looking around
>>>> for
>>>> information and got a hit from a post here about Ross Thomas --whom I'm
>>>> presently obsessed with...I don't know how I've missed him for all these
>>>> years--have gone through John D. MacDonald periods, and Ross MacDonald
>>>> periods--for some reason I thought he wrote police procedurals in the
>>>> McBain
>>>> vein and didn't bother with him. (nothing against McBain, I just am not
>>>> that
>>>> into procedurals)
>>>>
>>>> I picked up Briarpatch in the paperback exchange section of the library
>>>> and was blown away.
>>>>
>>>> As for me--I've always loved detective novels--from Nancy Drew on--and
>>>> read both old ones and new.
>>>>
>>>> I'm devoted to Film Noir also--Kiss Me Deadly, Detour--you name it, I'll
>>>> watch it.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently working my way through the films of Jean-Pierre
>>>> Melville--started with Army of Shadows, have seen Le Deuxième
>>>> Souffle,Bob
>>>> le flambeur, and just watched Le Samourai last night--what an incredible
>>>> filmmaker--his control and style is pretty astounding--I'm theorizing
>>>> without enough evidence probably, but it occurred to me this morning
>>>> that
>>>> his subject is death--and death looked at squarely in a way that is
>>>> pretty
>>>> rare.
>>>>
>>>> But, this is my question for you all--in the Jim Jarmusch film, Ghost
>>>> Dog:
>>>> The Way of the Samurai, Forrest Whitaker plays a killer, a kind of holy
>>>> man
>>>> who kills, and of course follows the way of the Samurai. I could swear i
>>>> read a mystery about a very similar character--a loner who did contract
>>>> killing and lived by the Samurai code. He lived in a van. I can't
>>>> remember
>>>> the title of the book, or who wrote it--and there are no credits in IMDB
>>>> for
>>>> Jarmusch's film that mention it being based on a novel.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone remember this book? I read it not long before the movie came
>>>> out--some time in the '90s--and it was new when I read it.
>>>>
>>>> I associate it with Thomas Perry for some reason--i know Perry didn't
>>>> write it, but I might have just started reading him at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> It's great to be here--Zoe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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