Heishiro, a noble Samurai, sets out in search of the renegade who stole his clan’s treasure and killed his best friend. Heishiro should be able to hold his own against the villain Rannosuke, who has only killed hundreds of men and fought entire armies while simultaneously defending himself against dozens of deadly ninja assassins. This is Samurai Fiction. Don’t believe everything you see in Chambara movies!
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April 14, 2010
#1
I shut this movie off after 15 minutes. It was unbearable to watch. The direction is heavy handed, the selected music is a mistake, and you can see the poorly applied rubber prothestics they used as make-up on the actors to imitate baldness. Also, the interchange of black and white footage with moments of color is anything but subtle. Even as a joke, this movie wore out its welcome quickly.
April 14, 2010
#2
Like one review on this film,I was turned off very early because of the tone of the film(to lighthearted for my taste).
I’m a big fan of the Kuroswawa film epics,and this film(or so I thought),would be like that in every sense.The main character had no screen presence at all.The music score just didnt do it for me. Look at the making of the film,it was stated that this was a MTV generation film,they were right on the money.To bad I’m not of that generation…You cant always go by other people glowing recommendation,I should have gotten “Seven Samuari”..
April 14, 2010
#3
This is the Classic Must see Samurai Film I’ve bin hearing about?..Right..Well I happend to rent this ol’ “gem” yesterday at blockbuster from reading about how superb this epic Samurai Film is. I should have sticked to Douglas’s Review and the other review. This film is not a classic. Stick to Kurosawa films and ignore this one. I don’t wanna sound harsh but I didn’t enjoy this film one bit, it wasn’t funny though it was trying to be, obviously this film is trying to be hip and new which is totally fails at, I thought the characters wern’t great at all and I had no sympathy except for one of the characters and for some reason that villian looked so annoying! I just wanted to slap him in the face!
And what’s with the music! It was like watching a really bad MTV original movie. I agree with the reviewer saying this was more for the MTV generation since the Film had terrible lame music. Overall the Music was one of the reasons that really got me ticked.
Samurai Fiction is entertaining I guess but not the epic classic I was expecting. I loathed almost everything about it. The characters, music, and especially that idiotic villian who was seemed very gay(literaly). Overall this was one of those films that I didn’t enjoy one bit. Though I like the clever the black and white, and some witty dialoug which I enjoyed for about 3 seconds. I will probably get some negative review(unless people are mature enough to mind there own buinsness and let people give there opinions instead of bashing them)and in the end…I give this film a
2 out of 5….Not the epic Samurai film I was expecting…
Lates..
April 14, 2010
#4
If you want to see a contemporary samurai film with great acting and a moving storyline, check out ‘Twilight Samurai.’ If you want to see a rock-n-roll samurai movie that is cool, funky and a slap in the face to the Edo gravitas of that well-known Tom Cruise vehicle, check out ‘Zatoichi.’ If you want to see a film that fails to be either of these, ‘Samurai Fiction’ is for you.
Director Nakano is a cross-over from music videos, and by God, it shows. Slow-motion flames, swooping crane shots, random spots of colour on a black-and-white canvas. Characterisation? Forget it. Every one of these characters is two-dimensional. Acting? The pros put in performances, but the musicians who are scattered throughout the cast to thrill Japanese teenagers are very wooden. Hotei looks downright nervous at times, and I could swear he is looking to the side for direction in some scenes. Direction? Ham-fisted, unless you are looking for an extended music video.
The comic elements barely raised a smile. The antics of the aging ninja were mildly amusing, but the shock-horror of a potentially homosexual samurai villain was embarrassing, and hardly iconoclastic – how many decades is it since Clavell had samurai offer up a duck for sexual pleasure in ‘Shogun’?
‘Samurai Fiction’ is a watchable piece of fluff that will remain in the memory fleetingly after viewing. It didn’t annoy me; that’s about the best thing I can say for it.
April 14, 2010
#5
It’s a great story to watch, not your typical Jet Li film, but more along the lines of a Crouching Tiger, type movie