Tale of the Heike
Feb. 24th, 2008 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyKi-hime's recent post to the Tousando on Sukiyaki Western Django (which looks like great fun in a "Kill Bill" kinda way), sent me off in search of the Dan No Ura sequence from the 1966 film Kwaidan - sorry, no subtitles, but the images are stunning when one is not cursed by grainy video quality. (Run time about 8 1/2 minutes, so you know. I believe the instrumentation and singing are the performance of an actual biwa hoshi of that episode in the Tale of the Heike. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxo3pFpBYI
In the process, I stumbled upon this re-telling of the battle of Dan No Ura on Youtube by, of all people, the late Carl Sagan (Run time 7 1/2 minutes). http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNKt6gcEM8
In the process, I stumbled upon this re-telling of the battle of Dan No Ura on Youtube by, of all people, the late Carl Sagan (Run time 7 1/2 minutes). http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNKt6gcEM8
