Kaori Momoi,
Ken Ogata,
Makoto Akatsuka,
Mitsugoro Bando,
Nenji Kobayashi
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A young swordsman loses his eyesight and his wife, and fights for vengeance and honor.
DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
Stats: 161 reviews
Love and Honor is even greater than Yamada's previous films Twilight Samurai and Hidden Blade. He has perfected his style of serene and subtle tales of ill-begotten samurai. Here we find a lord's poison taster left blinded after eating some out of season shellfish. What follows i...( read more)
this is a beautiful film. the close of yoji yamada's loose samurai trilogy, this film catches a seemingly cliche theme of a man looking for sight through blind eyes and makes something extrordinary and anything but cliche. the diologue is poetic and tragic and the story is pass...( read more)
Did she just prostitute the family pride for 30-koku of rice? Love, in this movie, is profoundly selfless and not always theatric. Honour, on the other hand, is mostly indistinguishable from love (as it was in more romantic times), and viewers are given a chance to believe where ...( read more)
Slow tearjerker. What two people do out of their love for eachother. Very touching to me.
As much as I love Takuya Kimura, I was kindof disappointed with the film. Guess there was too much hype and comments going around before I watched it, which heightened my expectations inadvertently.
Not quite as good as Twilight Samurai, but still good. Could have used more Ken Ogata.
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