Friday, October 03, 2008

Samurai Fiction

A rogue samurai Kazamatsuri (Tomoyasu Hotei) takes off with the clan's treasured sword presented by the Shogun. Hot in pursuit is Inukai (Mitsuru Fukikoshi), the son of a clan official, who gets wounded in the confrontation. He is rescued by a wily sword master, Mizoguchi (Morio Kazama) and his very hot daughter Koharu (Tamaki Ogawa) who heals him back to strength. And now all he wants his revenge.

A film captured in black and white or to be exact, in black white and red, has all the ingridients of a samurai flick with swords fights and ninjas. The spicy bit is the bizzare humor and the rock riffs that accompany the sword duels but it sadly lacks in plot and story line.

Rating: * +

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