Featured Audience Ratings

• Bruce B

  
  I enjoy most asian movies with a samurai theme, this one follows the life of a samurai,. But I must say it was very hard to follow, comes with english subtitles. 2hrs 18 minutes gave me plenty of time to sleep. 2 Stars 2-22-13

• Jason S

  
  An excellent samurai movie about a man who will do anything to make sure his family survives. All the actors did a great job and I felt the story flowed well. The look of the movie was great. It is pretty long but it played so well that the run time didn't invade my thoughts at… More
  An excellent samurai movie about a man who will do anything to make sure his family survives. All the actors did a great job and I felt the story flowed well. The look of the movie was great. It is pretty long but it played so well that the run time didn't invade my thoughts at all while watching the flick.

• Luke B

  
  An effective samurai tale with plenty of excellent battle scenes. There is a lot of heart and soul in this film, even though our protagonist is not always likeable. This is one of the major plot points though as people start to see him in a different light. Loses marks for refusing to… More
  An effective samurai tale with plenty of excellent battle scenes. There is a lot of heart and soul in this film, even though our protagonist is not always likeable. This is one of the major plot points though as people start to see him in a different light. Loses marks for refusing to end. We receive a number of new plots which must end themselves. As the viewer though, it's hard to care.

• danny d

  
  absolutely incredible. this is only the second movie af all time to make me cry, and i cried twice. absolutely one of the sadest things i have ever seen. this film won best picture at the japanese academy awards in 2003 and absolutely deserves it. the story was marvelous and the… More
  absolutely incredible. this is only the second movie af all time to make me cry, and i cried twice. absolutely one of the sadest things i have ever seen. this film won best picture at the japanese academy awards in 2003 and absolutely deserves it. the story was marvelous and the acting was incredible. there were 2 major things in this movie that infuriated me, those 2 things made me so angry that i wanted nothing more than to HATE this movie. but i cant hate it. its nearly perfect. the main character does have a major contradiction within his character which seems like a possible flaw in the script, but other than this point this film is brilliant. the 2 things that made me want to hate this movie werent flaws or script issues, they were just things in the story that didnt go my way. this film does not have your typical happy ending. but like i said, despite my tears and sadness for the characters at the end, i cant find anything about this film thats not beautiful. i havent stopped thinking about it since i watched it, one of my favorites of all time.