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Unforgiven
Yurusarezarumono (Unforgiven 2013) is inspired by the Oscar won film in 1992. The background of this film is taken place on the dawn of the Meijin Era in 1880. Jubei Kamata, a former samurai under the Edo Shogunate, has to hide his present from the government forces. Over 10 years, he seems not to take the sword. However, he has to break the oath to his wife when the government starts to pester the civil. Once again, he faces with the hypocrites under the cloak of justice.
6 January 1974, Niigata, Japan
1940, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
6 January 1974, Niigata, Japan
2 November 1976, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
6 June 1974, New Hampshire, USA
26 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan
20 November 1980, Tokyo, Japan
22 December 1992, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
21 October 1959, Uonuma, Japan
10 December 1960, Tokyo, Japan
13 August 1961, Aichi, Japan
7 May 1976, Tokyo, Japan
16 November 1955, Kumamoto, Japan
February 27, 2014
This "eastern" remake of Clint Eastwood's seminal '90s western boasts a similar sense of rough-shod lyricism.
February 28, 2014
Clint Eastwood's 1992 western is adored by just about every critic in the world. Except me. Weirdly, I found Sang-il Lee's reverent remake gripping.
February 28, 2014
The film is remarkably faithful to Eastwood's version. It carries on a long tradition of exchange between Westerns and Japanese samurai films that stretches back to Kurosawa and Sergio Leone.
February 27, 2014
There's no shortage of bloodshed, but rare is the film that uses bullets and flashing blades to provoke sadness rather than excitement.
February 28, 2014
It's a curiosity, perhaps, but it's nicely made, beautifully acted and well worth seeking out.
February 25, 2014
This remake of Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning epic may lack the austere, classical weight of the original, but it makes up for it in visual splendour. Unexpectedly brilliant.
February 27, 2014
Even at his most dogged and dutiful, Korean director Lee Sang-il crafts a retelling that never dips below a certain baseline of handsome competence, making a great case for the Hokkaido landscapes as a rugged frame for the action.
February 24, 2014
The samurai/Western osmosis is given a terrific new surge by this beautiful-looking, smartly modified translation of the Eastwood classic.
February 24, 2014
Not as redundant as it sounds ...
March 02, 2014
Lee's version offers enough grand spectacle and historical intrigue to carve its own space in the international multiplexes.
February 27, 2014
It's an enduring yarn, well told: a rare remake that functions independently, even as it reminds you - vividly, in places - of the original's elegiac pleasures.
February 27, 2014
Lee has made a film so good that it almost equals its namesake, that sour, magnificent western which won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars in 1993.
