Reuben Langdon on Japanese action and how thought affects movement [Action Talks #23] from Action Talks with Eric Jacobus

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Reuben Langdon on Japanese action and how thought affects movement [Action Talks #23]

1 hour 47 minutes Posted Aug 24, 2023 at 8:15 pm.

Intro

What Reuben watched and played growing up

Moving to Japan

Martial arts training

Finding an action school in Japan

Learning stunts at the Toei Action Club

Training to help the Sentouin (stuntmen)

Repercussions for messing up as a sentouin

Working with Japan Action Club (JAC)

JAC Training Sessions

Relationship between action schools

Yasuaki Kurata's Action School

Going to Hong Kong

Moving back to America

Koichi Sakamoto's Movement and Filmmaking

Super Sentai Stunt Team and Power Rangers Stunt Team

Martial Law

How training in Japan helped

Western Style Fight Scenes

Sammo pushing him

A Stuntman's job in Hong Kong

Working with Jackie Chan

Jackie and Sammo

Reuben joining Jackie's Stunt Team

Working with Zero Gravity Stunt Team

Just Cause Productions

Getting in to motion capture

On authentic performances

Working with Japanese directors while performing in America

Trying to find what works for both JP and US culture

Midihari (contrast in movement)

Eric's experince with Midihari in mocap

Midihari in Chambara cinema

Triads

The swashbuckling genre

Japanese wrestling and Kaiju

The different camps in Hong Kong cinema

Avatar

Stunt teams in America

Six figures? or do what you want?

Virtual production

Thinking in Japanese

Eric learning Cantonese

Going into a different mode when working with Japanese

The awareness of fight scenes to an audience

Hong Kong style boom in America in the late 90s

Korean action cinema

A new fight choreo style from Japan

Koichi Sakamoto's influence on his life

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Reuben Langdon is an actor, stuntman, and motion capture performer known

for his work on Devil May Cry and Avatar. We talk about his unique

stunt training in Japan, founding Just Cause, and how thinking in

different languages might change how we move. You can see his IMDB here:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486047/

Edited by Jay Huerto

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