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Bushido (2013) - Drunk Monk - 04-09-2026
This started out great. A stylish period piece where the images were bleached almost to B&W, with only flesh tones and some accented colors. The first scene, which you can see in the trailer above, had some nice bokken and spear sparring. I was like 'yeah! ultravi samurai style!'
After that, it's talk, talk, talk. Lots of discussion of the political issues they have when the Tokugawa shogun is demanding contributions for a dam project and that would tap this clan's secret cash cache. And it turns out that the sword master is a spy for the shogun, so he must be taken out. And someone must be blamed. But talk, talk, talk, with no soundtrack, gets tiresome. Stab someone already.
Then at the end, the fall guy gets hunted down by the rest of the clan and has to take everyone down. That was ok, kinda frenetic fight choreo, but by then, I was so exhausted from all that talking, that I was nodding off. Had to rewind to see the final duel because they started talking before it.
To it's favor, there are two characters named after my dog - Yukii, a background swordsman and Yuki, the only female character and sister of the fall guy (yeah, this fails the Bechdal test pretty badly).
Not D00M recommended unless you have trouble sleeping. If so, just watch the middle part.