I saw a trailer for this on a VHS tape and I was intrigued by the combination of action and horror elements (I am a huge fan of the latter). I do like the movie Shogun Assassin but otherwise these Samurai type movies aren't really my thing. The film looks good, sounds good (taking into account that I watched it on a very old, early 1980's tape) and there is plenty of fighting. However, the plot confused me, at 2 hours it felt very long and the English dubbing was awful.