Japanese cinema has grown to become the best in the world. This movie is one of many over the last 10 years that has told stories of upheaval and violence in a passionate and sensitive way. Just like The Twilght Samurai and Hidden Blade, this movie was well done, well acted and entertaining.
Great movie indeed iff you like a serious movie with tradition and honor from those times and really good fighting battles then this is your movie .
Its no random action karate movie with guys jumping 3 meter high ect.
this is how it went for real in those days.
and exelent acting to!
Yeah, i agree. Cool film. I enjoyed the fight scenes.
"Ebola! Ebola!"
As someone in the martial arts, this film meant a lot to me, and the realism and lack of flash, show, or anything stagey or goofy was humbling and gave the movie class and distinction.
As someone else already said, there were no unmotivated fights or uneeded wire tricks. This didn't at all fall prey to the many pitfalls of modern fight scenes. All authentic techniques, little slow-mo, not a lot of MTV editing or anything like that, and the visual representation of the story's themes were well incorporated. Beautiful, stirring, powerful film.
"Bulls**t MR.Han Man!!"--Jim Kelly in Enter the Dragon
You lay the words in my mouth :)
shareI saw the first 30 mins or so of this after a karate seminar. There was a room full of karateka of varying grades and abilities and we were all in awe of this film. Wish i could have stayed to see the rest but what i did see was truly inspirational. Now i have to try and find a copy from somewhere to see how it ends :P
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