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The Hidden Blade
A movie directed by Yôji Yamada.
The epic tale of munezo a samurai being displaced in a rapidly changing japan. After a failed political coup he is ordered to prove his innocence by finding & killing yaichiro a former friend samurai & brilliant swordsman. Munezo enlists the … see full wiki
Director:
Yôji Yamada
Genre:
Foreign
Release Date:
June 23, 2006
MPAA Rating:
R
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With Yoji Yamada's The Hidden Blade, set in the early 1860s, the age of the samurai was passing; the age of moviedom's bastardization of the samurai was sometime in the future. The Hidden Blade is one of three movies Yamada made based on stories by Shuhei Fujisawa. They all deal with the end of the rigid social caste system of the Tokugawa era, the cracks and corruption in the samurai code, and the effects of this on some of those in the samurai class whom we come to know. These movies aren't … more
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I usually like Asian cinema, and liked "Twilight," but I just wasn't crazy about "Hidden Blade." The movie is about pre-Meiji Japan and the rapidly changing role of the samurai (same time period as the The Last Samurai). However, I never really connected to the characters or the plot. It is also somewhat slow until the last 40 minutes. The movie itself looks much older and drabber than something that came out only a few years ago. I loved other Japanese movies that portray … more
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HIDDEN BLADE (a.k.a. Kakushi Ken Oni No Tsume) is the second chambara film by Yoji Yamada, who is not particularly well-known for his samurai films. However, there aren't too many directors during these modern times that mastered the art of chambara film-making as Yamada has in such a short time. After his award-winning hit; "Twilight Samurai", Director Yamada looks poised for more samurai fame. "Hidden Blade" has even been nominated for numerous international film awards even … more
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