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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on July 31, 2017, 07:53:35

Title: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on July 31, 2017, 07:53:35
instead of talking about the history of the Samurai's facial armour,
the happuri,(3D-printed "black-lacquered iron" cheek and chin guard),
I'll focus on the Samurai, Kikuchiyo, from the famous 1954 Japanese samurai adventure drama,
The Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

(The Magnificent Seven, 1960, was specifically adapted from The Seven Samurai.
Many of The Magnificent Seven's scenes mirror those of Seven Samurai.
Battle Beyond the Stars, 1980, produced by Roger Corman,
was partly based on the plots of The Seven Samurai too.
Some film critics have noted similarities between Pixar's A Bug's Life and Seven Samurai! :P)

The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku Period about a village of farmers that hire seven ronin (masterless samurai)
to fight off bandits.

The famous Toshiro Mifune starred as Kikuchiyo(our subject matter), the humorous character who initially claims to be a samurai.
Mercurial and temperamental, he identifies with the villagers and their plight,
and eventually revealed to his group that he is in fact not a samurai, but a peasant
and also proved his worth in the end, before dying for the cause.
(Only three of the other samurai survived; "In the end we lost this battle too. The victory belongs to the farmers, not to us.")
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on July 31, 2017, 07:56:28
in case youre too young to have heard of "the Magnificient 7"
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: GrahamB on July 31, 2017, 16:43:39
Another nice custom from the Master! That 3D printed mask works well. I don't think a klicky can manage those leg movements in your second pic, though. :o

It's interesting how stories are 'borrowed' from earlier works in the movie industry.
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on August 01, 2017, 00:11:28
...It's interesting how stories are 'borrowed' from earlier works in the movie industry.

thanks GrahamB!

perhaps this 1977 pose was borrowed too?  :lol:
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Macruran on August 01, 2017, 00:41:24
 :(o):
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: tahra on August 01, 2017, 07:29:47
Spot on master cheng! :)
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: GrahamB on August 01, 2017, 17:22:34
perhaps this 1977 pose was borrowed too?  :lol:

  :lol:

Both of them lovely movers!
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Macruran on August 02, 2017, 01:41:05
Is "lovely movers" a phrase? It sounds somehow familiar even though I've never heard it before.
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Klickteryx on August 02, 2017, 02:33:13
Is "lovely movers" a phrase? It sounds somehow familiar even though I've never heard it before.
I think it's a pun of sorts. Movers sounds like movies and kind of has the same meaning - something that moves. Movers is how I imagine some English peasant to say movies.

Nice sam you rye Cheng, as usual.
Maybe a Ran inspired one next? Don't much remember it but I remember someone fighting with an odashi, Mifune's character in Seven Samurai has one too.
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on August 02, 2017, 10:29:44
...Movers is how I imagine some English peasant to say movies.

thanks and also for explaining this, for a moment, I was thinking that here's another 'culture' word I will feel too silly to ask :P
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on August 02, 2017, 10:49:09
Maybe a Ran inspired one next? Don't much remember it but I remember someone fighting with an odashi, Mifune's character in Seven Samurai has one too.

no idea what an Odashi is, mispelling?
....how about another Mifune mover?
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: GrahamB on August 04, 2017, 09:54:51
  :lol:

Both of them lovely movers!

No pun intended (even from this English peasant).

Is "lovely movers" a phrase? It sounds somehow familiar even though I've never heard it before.

I think Eric Morecambe said, possibly of Glenda Jackson, "She's a lovely mover isn't she?"
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Macruran on August 05, 2017, 04:03:53
Now that's an idiom I can get behind!  :party:
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Klickteryx on August 06, 2017, 01:37:56
no idea what an Odashi is, mispelling?


It's the really long sword he carries, originally designed for use on horseback.
It seems odachi with a c is the more preferred spelling.



Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cowabounga on August 20, 2017, 01:20:24
It's a nōdachi, Cheng!  😉
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on August 20, 2017, 17:43:09
It's a nōdachi, Cheng!  😉

thanks Arnaud...I have trouble remembering names, what more, foreign names  :P
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: Klickteryx on January 23, 2018, 19:10:10
Found a little chart that shows different Japanese tachi type swords.

(https://2static4.fjcdn.com/comments/So+this+image+has+quality+but+itll+give+you+_cc030dac0af6f9503c96567715ef6c9c.jpg)

Comparison of tachi and katana which is mostly that katana has a straighter blade.

(https://swordsandarmor.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/japanese-swords-types1.jpg)
Title: Re: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo in The 7 Samurai(1954)
Post by: cheng on January 24, 2018, 03:44:57
Found a little chart that shows different Japanese tachi type swords.
Comparison of tachi and katana which is mostly that katana has a straighter blade.

thanks Klickteryx!
so our playmos ones are Wakizashi(s) I think :D