The Japanese heart was hungry Guy Tought Junichi Okada hopes to have a global blow on his hands with the next Netflix Tentpole Last Samauri StandingAnd the formula which, according to him, will work is a combination of contemporary aesthetics with a good dose of action from the old school.
Expresses on the 30 of this week’s touchth The Busan International Film Festival, Okada – a veteran now two decades of cinema – explained that the objective was to produce a drama and an action in Japanese period which “speak to the new generation”.
“I thought of the way I could deliver this, and what I had in mind was to take traditional elements, the intrinsic parts, the basics [of martial arts]But we get them in stories and characters for the young generation, “explains Okada.” We wanted to examine how people could experience Action. “”
The Busan audience was treated this week an overview of Last standing samuraiNetflix is a very publicized six -part actuator which takes place for a global deployment of November 13.
The series launches its 292 Samurai warriors who fell into a fight until death and, finally, for the winner, the unpublished wealth, with echoes of the success of FX Grief and trace the echoes of the Netflix blockbuster Calmar game. But style and substance in action sequences are his own.
As aokada – on board as a main actor, producer and action choreographer – and director Michito Fujii explained that the plan was to avoid strongly relying on CGI in order to capture the spirit of the martial arts in history – and not to allow technology to distract the drama.
“I wanted to make sure that the human drama is not something separated from the action sequences that we will provide in the show,” explains Fujii, who named the great cinematographic “realists” Keaton and Akira Kurosawa as his inspirations.
Former member of the Boy-Band Japanese V6, Okada has become one of the most bancable stars in Japan in recent years thanks to a credible brand of action built on his own commitment of several decades towards traditional martial arts. His mastery of the Japanese and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, as well as in the combat styles of Jeet Kune Do and Kali, helped him to become one of the main combat choreographers of the industry.
Okada today gives a sign of the great Japanese director Kurosawa, creator of the epic Seven samurai With a series of successes that have redefined action cinema, and a filmmaker who learned martial arts in order to make his films more real.
“I am a geek of martial arts, or otaku,” explains Okada. “Since I was a child, I wanted to work in films. I wanted to work in action. I started like an idol, a pop star, and being in the movies was my dream. My weapon is my competence.
Last standing samurai The post -Samurai period takes place in 1878 when these famous warriors had – with their swords – left on the heap of scrap of society, while the country’s feudal system ended. Timed by a mysterious invitation on the historic terrains of the Tenryuji temple in Kyoto, they are tempted in a survival game, with the assertion that 100 billion yen are waiting for the winner. Cue violence, and a wild cast of characters and – in case we have not mentioned it – a bloody fight to death.
The series comes from the most sold pages of Shogo Imamura Ikusagami The series of novels, then turned into a series of manga.
The show is obviously a passionate project for Okada. “I felt only in the original source material, [Shogo Imamura] Worked mainly on period drama, but was trying to change the model, “he said.” I wanted to talk to a more recent audience. “”
