Simple swords and samurai movies will n.e.v.e.r go out of style. One man single-handedly hacks his way through an entire army with hundreds of nameless henchmen (they’re likely the bad guys). That is how it is with films extending from the championship standard of cinema haven’t you heard of Lone Wolf & Cub, the Fujita Tōru epic Sword of Doom, Azumi both entertaining and stunning to look at and now came out the Miike Takashi’s gore and captivating Blade of the Itto.
Blade of the Immortal is based on a manga series of the same name. It follows the life of Manji, a Samurai who works for Takuya Kimura, who had killed 100 people for a master, ruined his sister’s life, and then had to witness her assassination without being able to redeem himself. Manji spends a long time plotting revenge and when that moment comes he is not permitted his thirst for revenge nor the sweet release of death by an ancient witch by the name Yaobikuni Yôko Yamamoto who is 800 years old who stuffs loads of bloodworms within him which seal over all of his injuries and makes him immortal.
The whole situation changes in the raising tension in the current Day of Tension or D of T. Fifty years later a new movie practically starts and a girl turned out to be spirally raised with the same look as Manji’s sister, Rin (Hana Sugisaki), is captured by the ruthless clan of trained swordsmen. Rin rather gets angrier and angrier with each day as she outfits herself with swords one after the other pledging to wipe out the entire clan of belly dancers alone. She only had one weapon that she could rely on – knives, blunt knives, located up her sleeves.
To our surprise, Rin appears to be wiser than them. So Rin passes to the next stage fairly successfully for once – where she earns her keep. Blade of the Immortal may be a wall-to-wall action epic but it’s not gung ho about murder. There is more to the plot though and Manji’s instinctive understanding of vengeance is aroused when he makes the connection and realises that Rin is but a colourful detail to the larger picture. To their victims, she will be a villain. But gee whiz, there is a resemblance between that lass and Manji’s sister that made manchi become involved in her affairs till the very ugly realisation.
Blade of the Immortal: A Case Study in Takashi Miike’s Aesthetic… or In the Summer of 2009, Miike Takashi Finally Called it a Day After a Hundred, uh, Hundred and Three More Films It is no surprise that after directing 100… ‘…This is painfully and emotionally disturbing film but beautifully photographed and well manned. Whether it’s your first samurai movie or your thousandth, you are still going to appreciate how great a movie Blade of the Immortal is in terms of action, emotion and intricate moral boundaries.’ It is, however, a still piece which is probably 80% stranded on the cold roads and cities of the vagabonds and a road movie where one ‘crazy’ woman and two ‘boring’ men have to cross Middle Ages and Great America in Reckless.
Nonetheless, it is also a rather If one has watched more than three Shinjuro Eijima is one of the cinematic clichés employed in the introduction of the story. It does get repetitive after a while Though there is enough action it is simply not penetrative due to edits.
Among perhaps the most important roadblocks that stand in the way of Blade of the Immortal is the film Logan which is about another almost immortal warrior now … you get the point, who gets embroiled in a tough mission of saving an extremely violent young girl from a bunch of mercenaries and has some harsh journeys with her as well. Certainly, always some elements of originality are there. Elements although they already exist that of making movies such as the Blade of the Immortal, the logan, and true grit and its other variations including the rest of those films are all good, if not great.
What we would like to suggest is that, Blade of the Immortal has a degree of such traits but only to the extent, it can be categorized and that too into an already overly stereotyped genre. It tells the tale of a very lonely person trying to warm up to someone for a change, the exceptional soldier brought out of retirement for one last campaign, evil minions one by one, coming of age in the real sense, and of course, beating off entire legions of marauders with a sword and notions of justice. They are the selling points, not the pains.
The Verdict
Blade of the Immortal is a film you’ve probably watched over a million times in your lifetime. Yet if you appreciate this genre enough to watch a million of them, this one will surely satisfy your thirst. It’s a wonderful samurai thriller with real character development, and even more blood.
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