Takashi Shimura as Forney Aiken
Casting the Akira Kurosawa The Last Gentleman, #8
November 16, 2014 by at 12:30 pm
Takashi Shimura as Forney Aiken
Takashi Shimura as Forney Aiken
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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You rock.
You paper.
Forbear from attacking me, and I shall defend you from scissors.
Thought you said you weren’t presenting at Percy Conference 2015. This looks like a proposal right here.
More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write proposals for imaginary conference papers.
Horst Buchholz as Katsushiro
Charles Bronson (screen right) as Kikuchiyo
James Coburn as Kyuzo
Robert Vaughn as Heihachi
Steve McQueen as Gorobei
Brad Dexter as Shichiroji
Yul Brynner as Kambei. Not Japanese, but Takashi Shimura‘s Kambei shaved his head to disguise himself as a Buddhist monk, and Brynner was bald (plus quasi-Oriental, thanks to The King and I and, depending on your definition of ‘Orientalism’, The Ten Commandments).
Nicholas Selby as Kuniharu Tsuzuki
Terence Bayler as Noriyasu Odagura
Martin Shaw as Yoshiaki Miki
Francesca Annis as Lady Asaji Washizu
Jon Finch as Lord Taketoki Washizu. Finch may not have been a samurai, but he worked with Alfred Hitchcock, which much surely have required a degree of fortitude and Zen-like focus.
Recalls the best of Jonathan Webb.
Thanks, Big Jon.
The mat from ‘uncle’?