Oriental Adventures Movies?

[Valavien]

I just watched Samurai X. What other good samurai movies are there to give ideas for playing Samurai characters in OA?

 

[Tsyr]

I hope you mean the OAVs of Roruini Kenshin.

Also, Kenshin is not a samurai. That's one of the worst things about the american renaming of the show. Kenshin was an orphen, an assassin, and NOT a samurai.

Anyhow...

Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors is a good one to try.

 

[Sodalis]

are you looking for anime? or any movie for info?

if its the former, I cant help you. I only recall seing assassin movies- ninjas mostly (ninja scroll is a good one).

but for the latter, you can watch seven samurai. It is a really good depiction of samurai life in Japan.

the only problem is the story.
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A local village is tired of being pillaged and so hire a group of seven samurai to protect them. the problem with this is that a smaurai can never be hired. they have to follow orders from their superior, and for a samurai to take a job like this, would make them mercenaries, dishonoring them. bvut it is a good story hook for the movie.

the bushido code for samurai is very strict- aliong the lines of a paladin. They have to follow orders even if they disagree with it- and if they don't, they will be dishonored. And a samurai would rather lose his life than to lose his honor. And disloyalty to superiors is pretty high on the list.

 

[Valavien]

Any movie. I believe that our game also has a lot of elements from Chinese movies as well. Ghost Story was recommended to me as well. My character is a samurai so I wanted to watch movies to get ideas on how I should play that character.

 

[Arkham]

Although it has a modern backdrop,
I highly recommend
Ghost Dog, the Way of the Samurai

It gives a deep view into the actions,
motivations, and code of the Samurai.

 

[Upper_Krust]

The greatest Samaurai movies (aside from seminal Kurosawa Epics) are easily the 'Babycart' movies (six were made).

I would also suggest the Manga 'Ninja Scroll' title.

 

[Akunin]

Can't go wrong with one of Kurosawa's films.

 

[hong]

Spaghetti westerns.

A Fistfull of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Magnificent Seven (nor really "spaghetti", but a remake of Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai)

 

[Henrix]

Princess Mononoke - a very nice japanese animated fantasy movie. Has the added bonus of not being simple good vs. evil. Samurai, ninja, great kami walking the earth, everything.

For chinese movies, as you say you want them, well...

Chinese Ghost Story - definitely*. A marvelous fantasy movie.

Iron Monkey - good one, nice kung fu

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - another "must see"

And a lot of others, with varying quality, but generally quite fun - Bride with White Hair, Mr. Vampire (comedy, sort of. Hopping Vampires), perhaps some of the Fong Sai Yuk movies.
I've certainly forgotten to mention some, but I think these are the best.

Didn't Robin Laws write an article in Dragon recently about Hong Kong fantasy? The Oriental Adventures issue, perhaps?

* skip the sequal, though the third is said to be slightly better

 

[Tsyr]

If Chinese is good, I'd heartily recomend Fushigi Yuugi for a sort of "mystic china".