This debut from Gosha is a masterpiece. It features all the tropes of the samurai stories. It has familiar film tropes as well (think westerns, for instance.) It has humor in spades.
As the camerawork goes, you see in these movies where the John Wick films may have gotten some of their inspiration. Longer shots with minimal edits allow the audience to enjoy swordplay between multiple attackers WHILE running. Wide shots of the rural landscape as well as the scenes by the river could be taken as stills for a photography class.
I am a big fan of samurai films. There are many out there that do not feature Toshiro Mifune that are of equal or higher caliber.
This film is one of those. See it the first chance you get!
As the camerawork goes, you see in these movies where the John Wick films may have gotten some of their inspiration. Longer shots with minimal edits allow the audience to enjoy swordplay between multiple attackers WHILE running. Wide shots of the rural landscape as well as the scenes by the river could be taken as stills for a photography class.
I am a big fan of samurai films. There are many out there that do not feature Toshiro Mifune that are of equal or higher caliber.
This film is one of those. See it the first chance you get!