{"id":1203,"date":"2010-06-01T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2010-06-01T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:01:35","slug":"the-hidden-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2010\/06\/01\/the-hidden-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the BFI release of the Kurosawa Samurai Collection, Karen Rubins gives <I>The Hidden Fortress<\/I> the comic strip treatment. The 5-disc DVD box set containing <I>Seven Samurai<\/I> (1954), <I>Throne of Blood<\/I> (1957), <I>The Hidden Fortress<\/I> (1958), <I>Yojimbo<\/I> (1961) and <I>Sanjuro<\/I> (1962) is released on June 7. This box-set is released alongside BFI Southbank&#8217;s Akira Kurosawa and His Influence, a season running from June 1 to July 8, which marks the centenary of Kurosawa&#8217;s birth with a season of films made by both the seminal filmmaker himself and those he has influenced. It includes an extended run of <I>Rashomon<\/I> (1951). More information on the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/bfi_southbank\/film_programme\/june_seasons\/akira_kurosawa_his_influence\" target=\"_blank\">BFI website<\/A>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1204\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hiddenfortress.gif\" rel=\"lightbox[1203]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hiddenfortress.gif?resize=474%2C1436\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Hidden Fortress\" width=\"474\" height=\"1436\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hiddenfortress.gif?w=594 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hiddenfortress.gif?resize=99%2C300 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Review by Karen Rubins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">For more information on Karen Rubins, go to her <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.karenrubins.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/A> or her <A HREF=\"http:\/\/kazmantra.wordpress.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">blog<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the BFI release of the Kurosawa Samurai Collection, we have a comic review of <I>The Hidden Fortress<\/I>.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic strip review by Karen Rubins<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[42,106],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-japanese-cinema","tag-kurosawa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2601,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/02\/21\/the-hidden-fortress-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1203,"position":0},"title":"The Hidden Fortress","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1958 action adventure The Hidden Fortress belongs to a swashbuckling genre of heroic derring-do: jidaigeki. 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