are we standing on the same planet, dude? are you sure that the western sense of humor is the same as that of the Japanese? for years i have been watching lot of clueless moronic films made in hong kong, china, Hollywood or even from europe, but this Japanese film is definitely on top of such list. yeah, maybe there's something inexplainable Japanese humor that this film's screenplay writer had tried to deliver, or those Japanese producers suddenly pulled their heads out of the sand and started reading stupid comic books drawn by those Otaku宅男 or ハウス宅女 who all lived in their iron-clad Ivory towers, dreamed up weird and illogic scenarios, plots, storyline to fool themselves and entertain those brain-dead generation. so they think this screenplay of 'Scabbard Samurai' was a rare find and god send. on the other hand, the production of this film was quite serious, serious about the settings, the scenes, the props, costumes, the casting job....almost all stuff involved in a serious production were well prepared. the film came out very smoothly and very easy to watch but, WTF?! it's absolutely stupid and worthless! don't tell me how great this film is, how you saw it and grasped the whole nine yards of the meaning of this film, how you consider it's the milestone that the Japanese movie industries finally primed itself from puberty to maturity. NO! because there's nothing in it but absurdity and childishness. it's just like a worthless Japanese 3rd level comic book, mixed up with super nature, traditional Japanese samurai genre, ghost story, parenthood, merciless tyranny....whatever you might dream up, it's in the movie, the only thing they didn't throw in was 'child abuse', dude.
this comic samurai kept running, three mysterious assassins tried to kill him without probable causes, cut him from the back (the blood ejected like oil well in Texas), shot him at the head from behind (the blood exploded like fireworks on 4th of july!), snapped and broke his neck from behind. yeah, just like general MacArthur said: "old soldier never die but faded away...." this ugly comedian samurai never died, but later, mysteriously died by his seppuku. in order to let people believe this samurai legend really lived and exited in Japanese history, the director decided to post a tombstone with his name on it which is still on the street corner of wherever you think it is.
what a waste of money and time on both sides, the production team and we, the viewers. don't try to fool me and others that you, only you understood what's going on to prove how intelligent and how deep you are. you should know that when you look down upon the garbage littered around your feet, or dogs' crap, you know it's garbage, and you know it's so stink that you should not step on it. oh, what a waste.
this comic samurai kept running, three mysterious assassins tried to kill him without probable causes, cut him from the back (the blood ejected like oil well in Texas), shot him at the head from behind (the blood exploded like fireworks on 4th of july!), snapped and broke his neck from behind. yeah, just like general MacArthur said: "old soldier never die but faded away...." this ugly comedian samurai never died, but later, mysteriously died by his seppuku. in order to let people believe this samurai legend really lived and exited in Japanese history, the director decided to post a tombstone with his name on it which is still on the street corner of wherever you think it is.
what a waste of money and time on both sides, the production team and we, the viewers. don't try to fool me and others that you, only you understood what's going on to prove how intelligent and how deep you are. you should know that when you look down upon the garbage littered around your feet, or dogs' crap, you know it's garbage, and you know it's so stink that you should not step on it. oh, what a waste.