06-26-2011, 10:32 AM
...HK & PPFY see this and all we get is a review of donut shops? :roll:
Freaking awesome flick. Miike was spot on with his Bushido fanaticism and can great the nastiest villains ever. That victim amputee will haunt me like so many of Miike's twisted visions. Chanbara is back with a vengeance, more brutal, visceral and draconian than ever.
Note that I saw the DVD which had the deleted scenes, otherwise known as the scenes cut out of the U.S. version, including the deleted rape scene. Most of the deleted scenes were trim for time, and they set it up well on the DVD so it begins with rather boring cutting room floor extras, moves to the rape scene (which goes a completely different direction than I was expecting - after the amputee I was wary of watching this but after watching it, well, it was a totally Miike character development scene that really adds to the film) and then goes to deleted battle scenes, which of course, is the best part. The battles of more of the 13 have greater detail.
This film had just the right amount of sword fights. Very satisfactory. A definite DOOM winner, but isn't Miike always so?
Freaking awesome flick. Miike was spot on with his Bushido fanaticism and can great the nastiest villains ever. That victim amputee will haunt me like so many of Miike's twisted visions. Chanbara is back with a vengeance, more brutal, visceral and draconian than ever.
Note that I saw the DVD which had the deleted scenes, otherwise known as the scenes cut out of the U.S. version, including the deleted rape scene. Most of the deleted scenes were trim for time, and they set it up well on the DVD so it begins with rather boring cutting room floor extras, moves to the rape scene (which goes a completely different direction than I was expecting - after the amputee I was wary of watching this but after watching it, well, it was a totally Miike character development scene that really adds to the film) and then goes to deleted battle scenes, which of course, is the best part. The battles of more of the 13 have greater detail.
This film had just the right amount of sword fights. Very satisfactory. A definite DOOM winner, but isn't Miike always so?
Shadow boxing the apocalypse