#kuro-obi

[fightscenesreferences]

#60 Fight scenes references for Actors, Animators and Martial Artists Kuro-obi (2007) Kumite

[katacala]

Kuro-Obi (2007) is a great movie overall, and this is one of my favorite scenes. After spending the past few years on my women and opium history project (and planning to spend a few more years turning it into a book), any time that moral weight is assigned to explicitly linked women and substances, all of the colorful lights start blazing in my head.

Here, Giryu's first, shocked reaction to Taikan fending off his attackers and untying him from the straw mat he had been rolled up in was, "... Wait, are you drunk?"

Taikan's reply being basically, "Well ACTUALLY, women and sake are good, and even if they ARE evil, it's helpful, consumable evil that makes me more of a badass, so there, you clean freak!" took me out. "You should be thanking me for defying our master's teachings, getting drunk, and visiting brothels!! It's why I was local when you were getting your ass kicked!"

The ending, where Giryu stands up for a group of young women and promotes their agency without any ulterior motives, and where Taikan acknowledges that Giryu's sense of purity is a strength, not a weakness, is even more satisfying after this exchange.

[sadboyramenclub]

kuro-obi by ippudo at urbanspace vanderbilt - midtown new york, usa

all images by enzo badia of sadboyramenclub.

[redmonsoon]

A clip from the movie "Black Belt" or "Kuro-Obi"

This was a pretty awesome movie, I don't know if non-martial artists would enjoy it nearly as much but...

Just awesome about how the students go about their master's teachings differently. Two different extremes too. Hahaha

Taikan's total non-pacifist way vs Giryu's uber pacifism... must train more. Giryu vs the police guy and all his strikes are so awesome. "No first attack" Osu.