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	Midnight Eye feature: A Tribute to Kihachi Okamoto
		Okamoto was a 19-year-old university student when he was drafted into the army in 1943 and shipped to the front at the height of the Pacific War.
		He was one of the main proponents of the wave of chanbara filmmakers that, in the wake of Akira Kurosawa, took a very critical attitude to bushido, the samurai lifestyle and Tokugawa society in general.
		With Kihachi Okamoto gone, plus the recent passing of film noir specialist Yoshitaro Nomura, the ever non-conformist Seijun Suzuki remains the last active filmmaker of Japan's battlefield generation.
	www.midnighteye.com /features/kihachi_okamoto.shtml (920 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		However, although jidai-geki is also the most celebrated genre to come out of Japan, one of its leading exponents, Kihachi Okamoto, who has died of cancer of the oesophagus, aged 82, was among the least known of postwar directors in the west.
		Okamoto belonged to the generation of Japanese university graduates who were drafted in to the worst years of the war in the south Pacific.
		Okamoto, who was referred to in Japan by the single name of Kihachi, was back on more familiar territory in his final film, Vengeance For Sale (2001), a delightful low-budget throwback to his samurai films of the 1960s.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/obituary/0,12723,1440514,00.html?gusrc=rss (875 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八 Okamoto Kihachi, 17 February 1923 – 19 February 2005) was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.
		One of his most notable works is Samurai Assassin (1965) starring Toshiro Mifune, about a group of 19th Century political agitators planning to kill an important government official.
		Alongside Masaki Kobayashi, Okamoto was also a candidate for directing the Japanese sequences for Tora!
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kihachi_Okamoto (154 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto - Wikipedia
		Februar 2005 in Kawasaki) war ein japanischer Filmregisseur.
		Okamoto studierte an der Meiji-Universität und eröffnete eine Filmfirma.
		August 1945, des Tages, an dem in Japan öffentlich verkündet wurde, dass der zweite Weltkrieg verloren sei.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kihachi_Okamoto (166 words)

	Samurai Assassin (1965)
		Director Kihachi Okamoto, who went on to helm the haunting samurai classic Sword of Doom, brings to the screen a dramatic story of a critical event in 19th-century Japan that marked the beginning of the end for the samurai era.
		Blood spills forth and men turn into craven animals relishing in the butchery of their fellow man. Although this provides a graphic account of a historical event, the careful buildup, or breaking down rather of Mifune's character gives it far greater dramatic depth as we witness the destruction of a man's soul in the process.
		Okamoto also assumes the viewer already knows about events like the assassination at Sakurada Gate and the Ansei Purge.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/samuraiassassin_20060702.htm (924 words)

	The Asian Reporter - Film Section
		Kihachi Okamoto’s 1966 classic Sword of Doom explores the premise that a tainted sword reflects the tainted soul of its wielder, a theme of samurai culture.
		A central theme of samurai culture is the intimate connection between a warrior and his sword, expressed in the statement, "A warrior’s blade is his soul." Most often, this means that a samurai must never be without his sword, for he is incomplete without it.
		Kihachi Okamoto’s 1966 classic Sword of Doom explores another corollary of this premise, that a tainted sword reflects the tainted soul of its wielder.
	www.asianreporter.com /film/2006/30-06swordofdoom.htm (760 words)

	Obituary: Kihachi Okamoto \| World news \| The Guardian
		However, although jidai-geki is also the most celebrated genre to come out of Japan, one of its leading exponents, Kihachi Okamoto, who has died of cancer of the oesophagus, aged 82, was among the least known of postwar directors in the west.
		Okamoto belonged to the generation of Japanese university graduates who were drafted in to the worst years of the war in the south Pacific.
		Okamoto, who was referred to in Japan by the single name of Kihachi, was back on more familiar territory in his final film, Vengeance For Sale (2001), a delightful low-budget throwback to his samurai films of the 1960s.
	www.guardian.co.uk /news/2005/mar/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries (984 words)

	SaruDama :: Sword of Doom - Dai-bosatsu tôge (Okamoto Kihachi 1966)
		The principles of samurai bushido are in sharp focus here, demonstrating the zen-like connection between the swordsman's mind and his use of the blade.
		Kihachi Okamoto [ 岡本喜八 ] is. In terms of name recognition, several memorable films, and a modicum of influence within the streams of Japanese film, director Okamoto is well established amongst those who know.
		Given the vastness of the storyline from which the film originates and the fact that Okamoto attempts to tell albeit a sliver of the story in a single film, it should come as no big surprise that complexity is cast aside to fit this tale into its 120 minute allotment.
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/sword_of_doom.shtml (1254 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Sword of Doom
		ihachi Okamoto's awesomely titled The Sword of Doom concludes mid-slash, as the homicidal samurai Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai) is trapped in a final freeze-frame while hacking his way through an army of blade-wielding assassins and the taunting specters of those he's formerly slain.
		Though Ryunosuke's despicableness is occasionally offset by his aloofness from the conflicts he finds himself embroiled in, Okamoto's film nonetheless stands as a gripping depiction of wickedness run amok.
		Shot with an inventive mixture of tension-laced tranquility and swift, unrelenting exactitude that mirrors Ryunosuke's swordfighting technique, the film is a spectacle of symbiotic movement and sound in which the director creates subtle interplay between his delicate camera pans, atmospheric silence, and lacerating editing.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1509 (297 words)

	Kill! (1968)
		Kihachi Okamoto will forever rank among Japan's better jidai geki filmmakers for creating the visually stunning Sword of Doom (1966), a movie that like Clint Eastwood's masterfully dark supernatural Western High Plains Drifter, blurs the line between a lone antihero exacting revenge and a death-dealing specter from the netherworld.
		Okamoto, who has always shown a keen eye for framing, doesn't disappoint with the visuals here.
		Regardless of the influences, Okamoto and DP Roturo Nishigaki have shot a beautiful looking movie that is as good an argument as any for the need to preserve the art of fl and white filmmaking.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/kill_111405.htm (1264 words)

	The Balboa Theater - Samurai!
		Director Kihachi Okamoto leaves a lot of unanswered questions and is unable to tie up vital loose ends in the story, but what remains is still a fascinating, dark and violent epic that begs you to dig deeper.
		Of all the agit-pulp punctuations peppered throughout action master Kihachi Okamoto's anarchically exhilarating and archly self-skewering 1968 swordplay classic Kill!, one loaded battle cry from deep within the chaos of that far too little-known spaghetti eastern continues to resonate with bushido buffs today.
		More sharply focused is the anxiety-of-influence eagerness Okamoto evinces as he strives, and often succeeds, to out-macho the stylistic engorgements of Yojimbo and Sanjuro (based on the same novel as Kill!) with each lacerating swish pan and savage shock splice in manga-existentialist masterworks like Sword of Doom.
	www.balboamovies.com /program/samurai.html (14061 words)

	Tribute-Okamoto
		Kihachi Okamoto, one of Sanada-san's favorite collaborators and prominent Japanese movie director from the golden age of Japanese movies, died of esophagus cancer at the age of 81 on February 20, 2005.
		When Director Okamoto was shooting "Sukedachiya Sukeroku" in 2000, he was already very frail, suffering from pulmonary emphysema and asthma, in addition to his speech disability since 1995.
		Director Okamoto's best known film is "Japan's Longest Day"(1967), which depicted the day the WWII ended.
	www.hiroyukisanada.com /TributeOkamoto.html (587 words)

	Kihachi Okamaoto (Sword of Doom, Samurai Assassin) dies - dark discussion
		Kihachi Okamaoto (Sword of Doom, Samurai Assassin) dies
		Great director of samurai classics, Kihachi Okamoto, has died of cancer.
		Okamoto,along with Hiroshi Inagaki, is one of the few directors who rival Kurosawa as the king of the Samurai film.
	www.darkdreams.org /dd_forum/showthread.php?t=7281 (301 words)

	Japan's Okamoto Kihachi master works to be showcased in Berlin
		Berlin - Nine film classics by Japanese director Okamoto Kihachi are to be showcased at next year's Berlin Film Festival, organizers announced Monday.
		Okamoto, who died in 2005 at the age of 82, was one of the pioneers of the new Japanese cinema, but has remained largely unknown internationally.
		The Okamoto movies to be shown in Berlin, include the World War II film Desperado Outpost (Dokuritsu gurentai) as well as The Last Gunfight (Ankokugai taiketsu), and The Elegant Life of Mr.
	www.monstersandcritics.com /movies/news/article_1234339.php/Japans_Okamoto_Kihachi_master_works_to_be_showcased_in_Berlin (349 words)

	Wild Realm Reviews: Kill!
		Kihachi Okamoto had come to Seattle for the premiere & afterward was interviewed by a translator who spoke with such a perfect western accent he could've passed for Japanese American if only he could stop using the word "Engrish."
		Taking questions from those of us who were so happy to meet him, Okamoto was in a great mood, being wined & dined by Americans who knew several of his films.
		But Okamoto's next-best film is such a distant second place that it appears as though he made only one great film during his life.
	www.weirdwildrealm.com /f-kill.html (1079 words)

	EROS PLUS MASSACRE エロス＋虐殺: Age of Assassins 殺人狂時代 (Okamoto Kihachi 岡本喜八, 1967)
		Both are the flest of dry comedies, with a lack of sentimentality, light treatment of murder, and globe trotting anti-heroes making their way through piles of awkward situations and exotic, bizarre characters, both making oblique or vague swipes at politics.
		Though as much of a spoof of the spy film, with sultry femme fatales, gunplay, and strange gadgets, as a continuation of the "everyman" character Okamoto was so much a fan of, Age of Assassins manages to be fun and seemingly timeless, in a way few comedies can be.
		Concerning the visual style, Okamoto used the same cinematographer for this as Kill!, so it has a similar crisp detail, but it's a bit more high contrast (inspired by the fl and white film noir underworld of assassins and spies, I suppose.) The score is almost inappropriately "emotional" at times, but enhances the odd factor.
	erosplusmassacre.blogspot.com /2007/07/age-of-assassins-okamoto-kihachi-1967.html (787 words)

	TOKYO FILMeX
		Overflowing with a modern, rebellious spirit, OKAMOTO Kihachi (1924-2005) blazed a new trail in Japanese cinema.
		With the lilting tempo as his style, he creatively pursued the enjoyment of film, and still original today, new things are to be discovered despite numerous viewings of these masterpieces.
		His humor-filled stories, rhythmical tempo, original camera work and other idiosyncrasies are called the “Kihachi Touch,” which continues to fascinate many of his fans.
	filmex.net /2006/focus1-e.htm (246 words)

	Kill! (1968)
		Following the success of his masterpiece, Sword of Doom, Kihachi Okamoto turned his attention to the source material that Akira Kurosawa used to make Sanjuro.
		was the result, and Okamoto's mix of absurd comedy, samurai action, and Italian spaghetti Western is available for the first time on home video thanks to the Criterion Collection and their Rebel Samurai box set.
		Okamoto was drafted into the military towards the end of WWII, when Japanese fatalities were in the hundreds of thousands in the Pacific, and it's easy to see his cynicism on display here.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=141181&buy=closed&PID=10120528&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (569 words)

	Okamoto Kihachi - Moviefone
		Tom Mes pays tribute to the late Kihachi Okamoto, director of such films as Sword of Doom, Samurai Assassin and Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo.
		Kihachi Okamoto on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Okamoto Kihachi - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Okamoto Kihachi Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/okamoto-kihachi/445419/main (88 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto - Biography
		Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific.
		Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among his colleagues managed to survive.
		Okamoto also made a name for himself as a director of equally cynical gangster pictures at Toho, including Boss of the Underworld (1959) and The Age of Assassins (1967).
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0645477/bio (326 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto
		Directed by Okamoto Kihachi ("Sword of Doom," "Zatoichi Vs. Yojimbo," "Samurai Assassin"), "Kill!" (Japanese title "Kiru") is not a blatant comedy, and many fail to see its humor.
		Like anything that plays with genre, one has to be fairly familiar with the "rules" to understand the jokes that are being made at their expense.
		Director Kihachi Okamoto gives Yojimbo a marvelous ambiguity that Mifune invests with a grubby sense of honor, whether growling and drinking and stirring things up or fearlessly strolling through the climactic gang war, dispatching attackers with a swipe and a grimace....
	www.dvd-today.com /director/Kihachi-Okamoto/dvd.html (687 words)

	Kihachi Okamoto Filmography
		Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire Sukeroku (Hiroyuki Sanada) who prefers to brandish a wooden pole or a rope rather than a sword.
		Synopsis: Samurai Assassin and Japan's Longest Day director Kihachi Okamoto offers a vivid dramatization of the bloodiest battle ever fought in the Pacific Theater with this combat film produced to portray the Japanese perspective on this landmark confrontation.
		Synopsis: A clever injunction against war, this film by director Kihachi Okamoto centers on the character of a dedicated, old-fashioned soldier (Minoru Terada) versus the changes going on around him at the end of World War II.
	www.fandango.com /kihachiokamoto/filmography/p104995 (1104 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sword of Doom: Kihachi Okamoto, Michiyo Aratama, Yuzo Kayama, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Naito, ...
		Flagrantly violating all codes of honor, Ryunosuke eventually finds himself challenged from all sides; even his own henchmen rally against him, and director Kihachi Okamoto stages confrontations that are as beautiful as they are graphically violent.
		The director, Kihachi Okamoto, was one of the most impressive visual stylists working in film.
		But I doubt that Kihachi Okamoto intended to include all of the story in Misumi's version.
	www.amazon.ca /Sword-Doom-Kihachi-Okamoto/dp/6303386717 (1872 words)

	AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
		DIR Kihachi Okamoto; SCR Akira Murao and Okamoto, from a story by Shugoro Yamamoto; PROD Tomoyuki Tanaka.
		A cult film among buffs, this utmost of action thrillers boasts three of director Okamoto's one-against-all sword fights (one with guest star Toshiro Mifune).
		DIR Kihachi Okamoto; SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, from the novel by Kaizan Nakazato; PROD Sanezumi Fujimoto.
	www.afi.com /silver/new/nowplaying/2005/v2i5/samurai.aspx (1041 words)

	DVD & Video Search: Kihachi Okamoto
		Director: Kihachi Okamoto Cast: Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama
		Director: Kihachi Okamoto Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama
		Director: Kihachi Okamoto Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yunosuke Ito, Koshiro Matsumoto
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/results.asp?CTR=634159 (90 words)

	Kill! (It's a Killer.)
		This version, written by Murao Akira and Okamoto Kihachi, is neatly, and often hilariously, held together by Okamoto Kihachi (who also directed).
		In case the viewer isn't sure just what they're watching, or what they're in for, the music, by composer Satô Masaru makes it clear as blown glass, with his wild, wild west oriented score.
		It's as if he and Okamoto are intentionally giving us, not just a send-up of the genre, but a newly staked claim to the Samurai territory jumped by the US Westerns so very often.
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /kiru.html (864 words)

	The Finest in Anime and Samurai Cinema - AnimEigo (Japanese Animation)
		Acclaimed director Kihachi Okamoto brings his unique vision to one of the most tragic battles of the Pacific war in his heroic, and often flly comedic Battle of Okinawa.
		With the war all but lost, 77,000 Imperial troops are ordered to defend to the death the Okinawan islands against an invading Allied force almost three times their size -- and half a million civilians are caught between them with nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.
		Acclaimed director Kihachi Okamoto and an all-star cast and crew spared no effort to depict this massive battle from a variety of perspectives, mixing the horrors of war with fl comedy.
	www.animeigo.com (4728 words)

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