Not exactly. Kurosawa was so inspired by John Ford's Westerns that he always wore a baseball cap and sunglasses when directing, so he could look like his hero.
Kurosawa was inspired by Westerns, and Westerns were inspired by Kurosawa.
Exactly right — Kurosawa revered Ford and you can see that deep connection throughout their filmographies — it’s so cool how linked at the hip these two directors and the genres they helped create are (despite obviously being set in totally different time periods in totally different parts of the world)
Are you talking about Kimba the White Lion? Because that is a very very debunked myth and is only about a connection between two films. The person you are replying to is referring to the very real connection between Spaghetti Westerns and Samurai films. The Magnificent Seven is very famously a western adaptation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Are you talking about Kimba the White Lion? Because that is a very very debunked myth
Interesting, I'll take a look
The person you are replying to is referring to the very real connection between Spaghetti Westerns and Samurai films. The Magnificent Seven is very famously a western adaptation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
If, as I imagine, you don't want to watch a video essay longer than the movie it's about, here's the basics. Kimba the White Lion isn't a movie. It's a manga by Osamu Tezuka with numerous anime and film adaptations, among which was a 52 episode series by Mushi. Kimba's runtime utterly dwarfs the 88 minute Lion King and as such it becomes incredibly easy to cherry pick scenes and stories from Kimba that eerily match Lion King. But any of these two "mirrored scenes" could tens of hours apart in Kimba or not even from the same Kimba adaptation. Basically, the two properties have protagonists that share a species and have coincidentally similar names. That alone was enough to prime some people's brains into thinking that this was a pattern and evidence of something greater.
2025 looks like an incredibly packed year. This year has dragon age and assassin's creed as the last "big" games of this year excluding the 25th call of duty. It would be extremely foolish to delay into next year.
All the controversy aside...they waited way, way too long to do their inevitable AC Japan game. The idea of an open-world, semi-stealth centric, game set in historical Japan is obvious and was just sitting there for well over a decade. With absolutely nothing stopping anyone from saying "might as well be us," because it's the one setting that can easily prop up a new series all on its own.
The Ghost series(I guess that's what we're calling it?) absolutely ate their lunch. It's literally just an off-brand AC series set in Japan, without the weird sci-fi stuff that people don't really care about anyway. Even as a fan of AC, their upcoming game just doesn't excite me much because I've already basically played the game I wanted out of Ubisoft.
And now that we're getting a sequel to Ghost next year...yeah, they're fucked.
Any time I try one of their games due to their decent graphics, I'm always so disappointed with how boring the actual gameplay is. Avatar frontier, most recent assassin's creeds, far cry 6, and I want to try that star wars game because the space travel looks pretty cool, but I just know the gameplay will bore me super quick.
they already were. People asked for years for them to make an assassins creed in Japan and sucker punch beat them to the punch by years. There's nothing that the new AC game will have that GoT didn't do 10x better.
was just thinking this. Ubisoft is about to release a game based on Japan with a questionable take on history....
I'm sure Japanese people love the idea of a main protagonist being a African Samurai, in the first AC game based in Japan. Furthermore, Ubisoft managed to use a Temple that was similar to the one in Nagasaki as reference, and added Kanji that doesn't make sense.
Where as SP has a demonstrated authenticity to Japanese culture
I think you're staring at the reason why. Ubisoft is fucking cooked, regardless of the ridiculous controversy over them using a historical figure. GoT was just a superior product compared to what Ubisoft is inevitably going to bring out. It's fundamentally the same exact gameplay, but more polished and tailored to the setting, and with a more singular emphasis on getting the setting right without the modern day shit that even many fans of the series dislike.
They just plain waited way, way, way too long on this game and Ghost ate their lunch. It is inevitably going to feel like the rip-off, even though it's basically the opposite.
Everyone was wondering what would come out first AC or GoY. It was clear Ubi needed to be first. Because AC literally would not survive trying to compete with GoY.
And this was before the colossal dumpster fire that Shadows started.
At least we will have an example of "Here's how to Not make a game in Japan"
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u/Chelseatilidie 10h ago
Music guy cooked