Stranger: Mukô hadan (2007)

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   theZeffo

   one of the best film of its kind. deeply in love 11 years 8 months ago
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   FilmWalrus

   https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8s7aw2 1 month 1 week ago
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   Siskoid

   Blazingly good (and violent) martial action makes Sword of the Stranger as a blood-soaked winner, a samurai film in which the titular stranger helps a boy (and his dog - good dog, too) escape the clutches of Chinese cultists out to take his blood to make an elixir of immortality. Emperor's gotta live forever, you know? A blond "foreign barbarian" acts as a physical threat who is perhaps looking for another kind of immortality. Visually, it prefers earth tones and a muted palette, but I love the wintry action in the second half. Musically, the main theme sounds like Lord of the Rings, which I admit I found a little distracting, no matter how good the score is. And while I did, at times, get lots in the politics of the various competing factions, it's all much simpler than it seems. For me, this is an impeccably-animated recreation of a chambara actioner crossed with a Chinese martial arts epic. And that's not a bad place to land on, even if you recognize the source material. 2 months 3 weeks ago

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