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  • Robert 2022-01-26 08:48:41

    Impressed by Little Japanese Bushido

    From "The Last Samurai" to "Mibu Yoshitsune", I can no longer hold the Japanese Bushido that was BS by the Chinese. Although the movie is exaggerated, it is blunt that I have lost the spirit of Bushido in the torrent of history. , some angry youths even laughed at fifty paces.
       
       The two films...

  • Moshe 2022-01-26 08:48:41

    A Bright Woman Like Xiaoxiong--The Biography of Yoshihito Mibu

    "I'm not afraid of death, but I don't care. I don't die, because no one can kill me." Saito Ichi of Mibu Wolf, such a thin man in "Rurouni Kenshin", who kills if he is evil, in this film In the movie, the same characters make people feel much more alive. His kind heart and deliberate indifference...

  • Patsy 2022-04-23 07:04:44

    2004 Japan Academy Award for Best Picture. The screenwriter Nakajima Johiro is a disciple of Hashimoto Shinobu, and has maintained the highest record of writing NHK Taiga dramas for four times. Even if Takida Yojiro won an Oscar later, he is still not a top-ranking director in Japan. His sensationalism was unrestrained and the second half was procrastinated and messy. It is conceivable that Yamada Yoji, Ami Shinji and others should be on a higher level. Nakai is good, and Hisaishi is good too.

  • Kaitlin 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    If the film had stopped abruptly when Yoshimura slashed at the Emperor's foreign guns alone, he would have given it 4 stars. But the more than 40 minutes of malicious and sensational waste drama after that made people lose their appetite. 2 and a half stars.

When the Last Sword Is Drawn quotes

  • Hajime Saitô: Not much to look at, huh? I don't like beautiful women. Women called 'beautiful' disgust me. After all, none of us is more than a sack of shit.

  • Hajime Saitô: A fox thinks for himself - while a dog simply follows.