Kamui: Lone Ninja

After over a year of silence I'm back! With a review of a film I saw some time ago but never wrote up - I have a few films to write up.

Today's film is a Japanese ninja film or should I say ninja pirate film (hasn't that confused the ninja vs pirate debate :P)

Based on a classic hit manga in Japan (not really known outside Japan) it follows the story of a ninja who decides to leave a job you can't really leave and the (bad) repercussions that follow. It contains good fight scenes but some dodgy CGI... I'll give it a 3/5.

The Warrior's Way

My first 1/5.

Bad film looking for any excuse for not well done fights. The plot: Some form of far east warrior is told to kill a baby to wipe out a rival clan and instead saves the child and runs off with it - to the American Wild West. Old clans then pursues him there intent on killing both of them and whoever else he had befriended on his way. Wasn't feeling the film at all.

Sakuran

 

A very pretty film - feast for the eyes. The story itself is of the life of a courtesan in a brothel, her loves and losses. With this film however it is the physical display of her gilded cage that sticks in the mind. That and some the the witty barbed remarks between the courtesans. I'll leave you with the usual trailer (sans subtitles). 3/5.