6/10
For real fan only
4 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
That movie is alright but the beginning is horribly long and boring. The first 30 minutes or so are spent resurrecting dead people and it seems like an eternity. However, afterward you get a few good fights. For Kill Bill fan, you get to see where Tarantino got his inspiration for the Hattori Hanzo scene. Except this time it's Sony Chiba who ask for a sword. Hattori Hanzo doesn't want to make him a sword until a resurrected Musashi shows up at the door. Musashi ends up leaving but they know he'll be back so Hattori Hanzo makes a sword that can cut spirits (like in Kill Bill).

The fight with Sony Chiba and Musashi is really good and so is one more fight in the movie. Definitely not as good as Shogun's Samurai that also features Chiba as Jubei Yagyu but cool to see for Chiba or Tarantino fans. What I recommend is to listen to the first 5 minutes then fast forward until they are done with the reincarnation crap.
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