the continuing adventures of crazy takezo, now an accomplished samurai. not quite as good as part 1 tho lovely to look at. all the women are after musashi but he prefers his sword :p
Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's fin...( read more
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October 1, 2009
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September 23, 2008
It starts kind of abruptly with Musashi Miyamoto dueling a guy with a chain and sickle. After he wins, a passing priest plants the idea in his head that he is too strong, that swordsmanship is about chivalry. Musashi spends most of the movie trying to challenge Seijuro, the hea...( read more)
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June 10, 2008
Mifune is the boss, as usual. And the outdoors nature settings are very moody and cinematic. But I got really tired of watching the female characters lie around crying all day. They're incredibly one-dimensional, weak characters.
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September 17, 2009
A worthy sequel and a fairly good continuation to the original story as the second part of a famous Samurai trilogy, this film does everything in its power to try to top the original. It certainly didn't, but it deserves a lot of recognition as a good film within the genre. The r...( read more)
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February 10, 2008
Quite well done, though loses a bit for me, having read the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, that this trilogy was based on. To have truly done the translation justice, it should have been more like six or seven movies. IMHO. Not bad by ANY MEANS, but as a fan of the novel, I could ha...( read more)
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