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Speaking on the Sidelines of this Week’s 30th Busan International Film Festival, Okada – A veteran Now of Two Decades in Cinema – Explained That Aim Was To Produce Japanese Period Dramo and Action of Speaks To The NEW GENERATION.
“I was Thinking About How and Could Deliver This, and What I Had in Mind Was Taking Traditional Elements, The Intrinsic Parts, The Basics [of martial arts]but we encapsulate them in stories and characters for the younger genetation, ”Says Okada.“ We Wanted to Look Into How People Could Experience the action. ”
Audiens in Busan have this week been Treated to a Preview of Last Samurai StandingNetflix’s Much Hyped Six-Part Accuity That’s Set for a November 13 Global Rollut.
The Series Throws Its 292 Fallen Samurai Warriors Into a Fight to the Death and, Ultimately, for the Winner, Untold Riches, With Period Echoes of Fx’s Wildly SuccessFul. Shogun and Plot Echoes of Netflix’s Own Blockbuster Squid Game. But the style and substance in the action sequences is it own.
As Okada – Onboard as Lead Actor, Producer and Action Choreographer – and Director Michihihito Fujii Explained, The Plan Here Has Been To Eschew Levili. Martial Arts Masters – and to not Alev Technology to Distract from the Drama.
“I WANTED TO MAKE SURE the HUMAN DRAMA i NOTHING SEPARATE FROM The ACTION SEQUENCES that we will be delivering in the show,“ Says fuji and Akira Kurosawa as His Inspiirs.
A Former Member of Japanese Boy-Band V6, Okada Has Become One of Japan’s Mist Bankable Stars in Recent Years Tanks to a brand Arts. His proficiency in japanese and brazilian jiu-jitsu, as Well as Jeet Kune do and Kali Fight Styles, Has Helped Him Become One of the Industry’s Leading Fight Choreoog.
Okada Today Gives A Nod to The Great Japanese Director Kurosawa, Creator of the Epic Seven samurai Along with a string of hits that redfined Action cinema, and a filmmaker Who Learned Martial Arts in Order to Make His Films Feel More Real.
“I Am A Martial Arts Geek, or Otaku,“ Says Okada. “Ever Since and Was A Child, I Wanted to Work in MOVIES. I WANTED TO WORK IN ACTION. I STARTED OUT AS An Idol, A Pop Star, and Being in the Movies Was My Dream. What he did is he have the best around HIM to make it authentic, Actual Martial Arts Experts, Sword Fights. my weapon, that is my skill. ”
Last Samurai Standing Is Set in 1878 Japan, The Post-Samurai Period WHEN FAMED FAMED WARRIORS HAD-ALONG with Their Swords-Been Left On Society’s School Scrap Heap, as The Country’s Feudal System. Drawn by Mysterious Invitation to the Historic Grounds of the Tenryuji Temple in KYOTO, They Tempted Into A Game of Survival, with The Claim That 100 Billion Yen Awaits. Cue Violence, and a wild Cast of Characters and – In Case We’ve Not Mentioned IT – A Bloody Fight to the Death.
The Series Comes Lifted from The Pages of Shogo Imamura’s Best-Seling Ikusagami Series of Novels, Later Turned Into A Manga Series.
The Show Is Quite Obvioously A Passion Project for Okada. “I FELT THAT IN THE ORIGinal Source Material, [Shogo Imamura] WAS BASICALLY WORKING ON PERIOD DRAMA BUT TRYING TO CHANGE The MODEL, “HE SAYS.“ I WANTED TO Speak to A Newer Audience. ”