Blade Of The Immortal

This is Takashi Miike's 100th movie, and itis not his best.Miike is an interesting director. Since 1991he has been making at least 3 movies a year.His films go from family themed films, toclassic Samurai, to horror. He is an auteurbut not all his films are great... and this isnot a great movie... good, but not great...I love Samurai films, and they don't comearound too often, but this movie is a littletoo slow, and too long... Disappointing butstill better than any DC/Marvel universemovie...

Blade of the Immortal is an entirely fantastic film: well calibrated, cheecky and never too gory, it entertains to the fullest. Cult director Takashi Miike might have got some stick for wanting to cast Takuya Kimura as Manji, the outcast samurai cursed with immortality, but his choice was spot on.Miike rightly considered how very lonely the life of a true superstar must be: both Takuya and Manji cannot enjoy normal social interactions and must deal with their unique status (a blessing or a curse?) entirely on their own. In the end the 45-year-old mainstream idol effortlessly succeeds in demonstrating to a different, more demanding, type of audience that he is a seriously talented and charismatic actor. With his now middle-aged man good looks ravaged by an unforgiving make-up, Kimura-san, who was already very engaging in his portrayal of legendary master Miyamoto Musashi in the excellent Japanese dorama three years earlier, here ups his performance by a few notches. In the special features he is seen teaching sword techniques and timings to his co-stars, while Miike stands on one side looking quite smug, himself taken by Kimura's skills and professional dedication. Accustomed to act with the intensity of his famously large eyes, as well the captivating quirkiness of his facial expressions, Kimura took on the challenge to portray someone with one eye and a badly scarred face by expressing the character tormented soul through down-to-earth, measured gestures, revealing how, beneath the coarseness of a killer, a desire for love and redemption needs to be quenched at all cost.

I like this action movie, lots of blood and gore. It's about a swordsman who cannot died and he is hired by a girl to avenge the death of her family. He ends up killing everyone and gets his wish to die.

Why do they make so many compelling flims. This is a must have, the action is spot on the cast and story is such a delight it puts the usual Hollywood trash to shame

Epic Bloodfest, unlike anything I've seen before, utterly brilliant.

Classic sword fights brilliant another one for my collection.

brilliant

Really liked this movie. Some humour, pretty good choreography.