Critic Reviews
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Mark Pollard, Kung Fu Cinema
A melancholy period drama colored by spurts of violent, blood-splattering swordplay.
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Derek Malcolm, This is London
Fumihiko Sori's attempt to make an original addition to the Zatoichi martial arts franchise never reaches the virtuosity of Takeshi Kitano's original. Needless to say, the fight scenes are better than the dialogue.
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David Jenkins, Time Out
With its hokey, flashback-heavy plotting, unadventurous camera use and a clutch of cloyingly earnest performances, it comes across like an irony-free, mid-season episode of 'Xena: Warrior Princess'.
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Catherine Bray, Film4
Ultimately a romp, albeit one with some entertaining quirks and a strange melancholy undertow, we shouldn't make overly high-falutin' claims for Ichi, but fans of balletic fight scenes should get a kick out of some good-looking sequences.
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Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
The villains are from the broad "har-de-har" school of banditry, the action is mostly fudged, and the resolution achingly obvious.
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