{"id":297,"date":"2005-08-30T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=297"},"modified":"2005-08-30T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T17:07:11","slug":"the-bushido-blade-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/08\/the-bushido-blade-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bushido Blade (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078918\/\">The Bushido Blade (1981)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The background in this movie is that Perry is in Japan trying to get a treaty signed with the Shogun before the Russians show up.  The Shogun is going to give the President a gift of a sword, but the sword is stolen by an anti-treaty faction and the Shogun will lose face and not sign the treaty if the sword is not recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Shogun&#8217;s commander sends off an agent to get the sword back and several American sailors follow to assist, very much against the orders that forbid foreigners from travelling in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Much fighting, heads removed, arms removed, samurai vs rapier fighting; the sword is eventually recovered after much loss and tribulation and it is returned to the signing ceremony. This means the Shogun Commander doesn&#8217;t have to commit seppuku to preserve the Shogun&#8217;s face and Perry is happy.<\/p>\n<p>This was a joint US-Japanese production and had a good cast, this was Richard Boone&#8217;s last role (as Perry). Toshiro Mifune did well as the Shogun&#8217;s Commander. Sonny Chiba was the Prince tasked to recover the sword. And I thought Frank Converse did a good job as the American Captain.   It had a lot of POTENTIAL.<\/p>\n<p>It just wasn&#8217;t very-well written or directed. Three Americans wandering around the Japanese countryside don&#8217;t have a whole lot of trouble (some, but not a lot) getting through to their destination. And they keep finding Japanese who speak English. (I suppose you had to do that for the story-line. They didn&#8217;t use subtitles.)  Interesting scenarios didn&#8217;t quite gel into a whole. I will give it a 5 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bushido Blade (1981) The background in this movie is that Perry is in Japan trying to get a treaty signed with the Shogun before the Russians show up. The Shogun is going to give the President a gift of a sword, but the sword is stolen by an anti-treaty faction and the Shogun will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/08\/the-bushido-blade-1981\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bushido Blade (1981)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}