trying not to work on my paper: a deep study on the samurai films of kihachi okamoto. rough draft due wednesday. i’m twelve pages in. think i’ll do a late night to try an kill a lot of it. but first i haff to put it off for a little while more before i’m ready. hence that which you now read.

there’s this actor, tatsuya nakadai, who stars in two of the movies i’m focusing on and is ridiculously good. in _kill!_ he plays a loveable, lighthearted ronin who’s pure of heart and avoids violence at all costs. in _sword of doom_ he plays a sociopathic, insane samurai who’s addicted to killing and who’s dazed, deliberate mannerisms give me nightmares every single night since the first time i saw it. he does both of these roles excellently.

he also played the king lear part in ran and was in a bunch of other kurosawa movies. anyway, if you’re into sixties samurai film, i’m sure you know about him or at least have seen him a bunch, cuz he was in as many of those movies as mifune was in, a lot of the time with mifune. as you can see in the picture at the top, he stole my haircut. translinear fashion theft.

i ate a burger today and a burger yesterday. both times made me feel like crap. it’s just too much food, and not in a good way. that’s like, the dark side of being full. ( i’m talking good, restaurant burgers here. but still. )

rough chuckles, these okamoto films. violent and depressing in a way that the violence is anti violent violence because it’s so depressing. nobody accomplishes anything, they just sabatoge their own causes.  he portrays violence more as a character than as ameans to an end. at this character is a malevolent bastard. ok. i should be writing this in my paper, rather than here.