8/10
The bloody westernization process on Japan to a new era!!!
25 September 2020
Due the overlong presentation the viewers have to be patient to understand so complex story, in early scenes have several flashbacks insert in the storyline ongoing, which could to bewilder a little bit, the movie takes place on the final period of feudal clans that starts in 1863 a sort of civil war against the western powers that are willing to establish a new governing system, the picture itself focuses in some main characters, the skilled Ronin Sugi Toranosuke (Takarashi) since when his father has been pressured by his stepmother to disinherit him in benefit her own son, then the sick boy jumps in a river trying a suicide, Sugi has been rescued by his future master Ikemodo Mohei (Tamura) who raised him and trained him to be a unusual Ronin on fight's style, his master actually is a disguise lead spy, Hanjiro (Ken Ogata) is a farmer lower class, but is a rare gift warrior, who want enter in the high circle of the Shogunate clan, among others peripherals characters the story is getting stronger and gripping about a real facts befallen until 1879, a sort a deep uprising where until Edo changes the name to Tokyo and all caste system was revoked, in this bumpy environment on Japan reshapes old traditional practices, a movie to be discovered by newest generation!!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8
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