| | OK... back to the ninjas...
Ryutaro Otomo really is just THE SHIT, isn't he. Like a Japanese Harrison Ford, he mastered multiple franchise-caliber characters in one career. Besides playing Jubei Yagyu, and the one-eyed/one-armed chambara classic Tange Saizen, he was also the iconic Kaiketsu Kurozukin - the pistol-wielding 'Man in the Black Hood.'
This odd character was a shinobi master of disguise fused with a Republic-style superhero. His trademark was two revolvers!
And he would brazenly rampage about the countryside during the day in full ninja regalia on a white horse. Not the stealthiest of tactics, but what a statement.
Otomo had some WHACKED OUT hair under that stingray-style ninja hood!
This force for justice can be seen in the quirky film AYAUSHI: KAIKETSU KUROZUKIN, wherein he aids a troupe of Chinese actors and vaudeville-like performers escape a political hotbed in a wagon train right out of any Hollywood programmer western. Too strange!
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| | Posted 8/6/2005 2:57 AM - 17 views - 0 comments
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