Six-String Samurai ( 1998 ) was another movie using Rhyolite as a setting.

Their music filled the soundtrack of Lance Mungia ’ s independent film released in 1998, Six-String Samurai, a film in which they also had small roles and screen credits.

* Six-String Samurai soundtrack ( 1998 )

Six-String Samurai is a 1998 post-apocalyptic action / comedy film directed by Lance Mungia.

Six-String Samurai is set in an alternate history America, in which Soviet Union attacked the U. S. with nuclear weapons in 1957, making most of the country an inhospitable desert.

Six-String Samurai: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original soundtrack to the film ; the soundtrack was released by Rykodisc on August 25, 1998.

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With Mungia directing, the band also produced two music videos of songs from the Six-String soundtrack, " Lovepipe " and " Boogie on the Beach ", that year.

The initial CD release featured 15 tracks ( dropping " Another Piece Of Meat ", " Six-String Sting " and " Can't Get Enough ", parts 1 & 2.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

The first was the Kurosawa epic Seven Samurai, about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves.

Katsuyuki Sumizawa ( Yoroiden Samurai Troopers ) wrote the scenario for the series and was one of three official script-writers, along with Akemi Omode and Katsuhiko Chiba.

The last official game by SNK for the Neo Geo system, Samurai Shodown V Special, was released in 2004.

While films before The Wild Bunch had used similar techniques, especially Bonnie and Clyde and Seven Samurai, Peckinpah was the first to use them as a distinct style rather than as specific set pieces.

Samurai were rewarded for their loyalty with land, which was in turn, on the liege lord's permission, handed down and divided among their sons.

According to actor Toshiro Mifune, the film was originally going to be called Six Samurai, with Mifune playing the role of Kyuzo.

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry.

" I sette magnifici gladiatori " ( 1983 ) aka " The Seven Magnificent Gladiators " was a Sword & Sandal variation on the Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven theme starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning.

In 1972, Isao Tomita's first electronic music album Electric Samurai: Switched on Rock was an early attempt at applying speech synthesis technique in electronic rock and pop music.

The Magnificent Seven a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

This word dates from the Muromachi period, and was possibly coined when the word " 切る = kiru ( cut ), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than Samurai.

The show's animation director was McCracken's former classmate Genndy Tartakovsky ( Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack ), who also directed many episodes himself.

Primary research into Bushidō was later conducted by William Scott Wilson in his 1982 text Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors.

* The website of William Scott Wilson A 2005 recipient of the Japanese Government's Japan ’ s Foreign Minister ’ s Commendation, William Scott Wilson was honored for his research on Samurai and Bushidō.

For instance The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which itself was inspired by Red Harvest, an American detective novel by Dashiell Hammett.

It also bears some parallels with the American Westerns ; Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, for example, was remade in a Western setting as The Magnificent Seven.

* Ultima Online: Gold ( 18 July 2005 ) was a special release sold by Wal-Mart and includes the same content as Ultima Online: Samurai Empire.

The new episodes, which ran for two more seasons, had a different production team than the originals since Genndy Tartakovsky was busy working on Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars ( MacFarlane and Hartman had left Time Warner altogether at this point, focusing on Family Guy and The Fairly OddParents, respectively ).

Faber was the head of a team ( known as the Seven Samurai ) that discovered a mass concentration called " The Great Attractor ".

The most notable was the internationally renowned Isao Tomita, whose 1972 album Electric Samurai: Switched on Rock featured electronic synthesizer renditions of contemporary rock and pop songs.

Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.

Gladiator ( 2000 ) is an epic, dramatic film, along with The Last Samurai ( 2003 ).

Many other titles contain in-game depictions of graffiti ( such as The Darkness, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, NetHack, Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, The World Ends with You, The Warriors, Just Cause, Portal, various examples of Virtual Graffiti, etc .).

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

Samurai warriors, as part of bushido, could perform ritual suicide, or seppuku, with a tantō, a common Japanese knife.

Shang-Chi then teamed with Spider-Man, the Black Widow, and Nick Fury against Viper, Boomerang, and Silver Samurai.

The child emperor ( portrayed by a puppet manipulated by his advisors ) reacts with pleasure to the departure of the Americans, promoting Lord Abe to Shogun, Kayama to Governor of Uraga and Manjiro to the rank of Samurai.

Photek is also influenced by traditional Japanese music and culture, with song titles as " Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu ( 2 Swords Technique )" ( named after the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryu technique ) and " The Seven Samurai " ( named after the movie of the same name ).

The most notable archetypes are Street Samurai, characters who have heavily augmented their bodies with cyberware and bioware and focus on physical combat ; Adepts, characters who have magical abilities that increase their physical ( and sometimes mental ) combat abilities ; Faces, highly charismatic characters who specialize in negotiations and social manipulation ; Hackers ( aka Deckers ), specialize in electronic surveillance, security, and augmented / virtual reality monitoring, combat and response ; Riggers, who augment their brains to achieve fine control over vehicles and drones ; and Magicians who cast spells and can view emotions and call spirits from astral space.

Bickle attempts suicide at the end of the movie as a way to mimic the Samurai ’ s “ death with honour ” principle.

Director John Sturges took Seven Samurai and adapted it to the Old West, with the Samurai replaced by gunslingers.

Seven Samurai is the highest reviewed movie at Rotten Tomatoes with the highest number of votes that is listed as an action / adventure film on the site.

Producer Lou Morheim originally bought the rights to Seven Samurai, with plans to have Anthony Quinn as lead ; according to Variety Brynner " got the rights away from Quinn " and brought Sturges into the project as director, based on the latter's work on Gunfight at the O. K.

Japanese cinema reached its zenith with films from director Akira Kurosawa including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress.

Cartoon Network Studios has continued to thrive with productions such as The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Samurai Jack and newer productions such as Chowder, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time.

Samurai warriors would exchange gifts adorned with noshi, a sort of good luck token made of folded strips of paper.

Modern Western translation of documents related to Bushidō began in the 1970s with Carl Steenstrup, who performed research into the ethical codes of famous Samurai clans including Hōjō Sōun and Imagawa Sadayo.

He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo.

In such films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, he played characters who were often comically lacking in manners, but replete with practical wisdom and experience, understated nobility, and, in the case of Yojimbo, unmatched fighting prowess.