Hideaki Ito, Kyusaku Shimada, Shiro Sano
It's the era after the apocalypse, and Yuki, a female assassin (Yumiko Shaku), is stunned to discover that her mother's murderer is her gang's leader. When she confronts him, she's forced to go on the...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Stats: 229 reviews
The Princess Blade isn't bad. It's a pretty good story about a man on the run, protecting is disabled sister, and a tribe of samurai assassins hunting the princess.
Pretty cool.. Azumi is better though.. but I did enjoy the quickness when swords were drawn ^_^
Cool story of mild tragedy with neat-o fight scenes choreographed by Donnie Yen!
The only good thing about this movie was the fighting scenes, apart from that the story was weak, pacing was too slow, characters were emotionless... I do like Yumiko, but wow her acting was so weak in this film. In other words, the story didnt develop the characters enough to ev...( read more)
In this time period, an unknown country is quarantined off from the rest of the world and finds itself ruled over by a tough dictatorship who employ a sect of assassins known as the Takemikazuchi to keep the peace. Amongst their number is a young girl by the name of Yuki (Shaku)...( read more)
Anime-like.. a lot of backstory, tight action, good music, dramatic, maybe a bit slow
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