Samurai Glee Club
Firstly, I thought this film was good. But I would have left a good 20-30mins on the cutting room floor. 5 of those mins would have been the dance number at the end. If you like that sort of thing, fair enough, but I can imagine others like me felt it was toe curling Asian cheese at its worst. The "stomp" style scenes in the field and building the house were O.K but still a little out of place. Also the simple samurai village idiot? Was expecting him to charge a villain, possibly save the old Aunt Oume, accidentally maybe? Or even die? But nothing. He was like decorative pillows: He served no purpose... other than being a noisy clown. Not needed, as The Gambler (is it Shiniki??) provided a decent comic relief, along with other characters.
To round up, class film- but block out the panto.