6 hours ago
Baian is an acupuncturist assassin who kills with a long needle to the base of the skull. It’s a slow, brooding and beautiful movie, one of those jidaigeki films where every frame is composed like a ukiyo painting. It took me a while to get into it. There’s some fight choreo, including a nice scene where one character has to take an a gang of attackers, but mostly it’s about intrigue and suspense. There’s a lot of eating, a strange focus on food, and drinking sake with loud slurps and gulps. That was somewhat distracting but served as a grounding mechanism. The ending mcguffin was intense. Did not expect to go there and it made the journey worth it.
There’s a part 2. It’s based on a novel and there’s a previous TV interpretation. I’ll probably give the sequel a go.
Not overly D00M recommended but a good story so far.
Seen censored on YouTube (there a sex scene that blurred ai all you get is a few minutes of mowing. ignore the John Wick comment in the title -that’s so misleading).
There’s a part 2. It’s based on a novel and there’s a previous TV interpretation. I’ll probably give the sequel a go.
Not overly D00M recommended but a good story so far.
Seen censored on YouTube (there a sex scene that blurred ai all you get is a few minutes of mowing. ignore the John Wick comment in the title -that’s so misleading).
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
