Red Cliff (2008)
Director John Woo’s Red Cliff is a dramatically poetic movie based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms a historical novel written by Luo Guonzhang. If you aren’t familiar with the Three Kingdoms story – it chronicles the ambitions of three men, love and the wonderful Generals that followed their lead. The three men are Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Cao Cao. While Liu Bei is often depicted... [Read more]
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Everybody loves Samurai, we associate them with anime action heroes, Tom Cruise and cool swords. Due to this, we have Western, chubby, couch potatoes referring to themselves as modern day samurai as they admire the aluminum katana replica hanging on their walls. If push came to shove the blade would be out, they would take a stance and cut through their enemy the way the old school samurai... [Read more]
