Mari Natsuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Morio Kazama
Heishiro Inukai, a noble Samurai, searches for the renegade who stole his clan's treasure and killed his best friend. The villain, Rannosuke, is a whole lot cooler than Heishiro. But Heishiro is from ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 15, 2003
Stats: 290 reviews
samurai comedy. i actually was ready to hate this film, but there was a charm to it that made me love it by the end. the music was terrible and the action left me wanting, but the attempt to do samurai comedy was a noble one and didnt fall flat, so the charisma of the character...( read more)
At first, Samurai Fiction looks like one of those old black and white samurai movies but has a visual quality of its' own shot in black and white with color in key scenes. There are a lot of characters, some more important than others, but each have their own uniqueness and qual...( read more)
You think maybe Tarantino saw this before making Kill Bill? Um, Magic Eight ball say "yes".
Tomoyasu Hotei who plays the bad guy thief is a rock guitar god and is awesome in Samurai Fiction.
A good story, I'm only disappointed that they made it black and white with some blood red color now and then. Otherwise it's an excellent ninjs/samurai film.
Aaron Yamasato needs to take a lesson from director Hiroyuki Nakano. This is how you write your first samurai movie. First things first, what you see on the cover is the opening sequence of this film and yes, Tarantino uses this in Kill Bill.This film is a mixture of
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