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Samurai Fiction: Ronin get the MTV treatment

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Directed by a Japanese MTV creative principle, this film is a comedic sendup of the classic Samurai tale. Filmed in glorius b&w, it employs several Japanese pop music guys of which one plays the heavy and who also writes most of the soundtrack. There are a lot of good yucks wrapped within a fairly legitimate plot: bad samurai, inept samurai, true master and his daughter, dash of romance, and a happy ending. If you lke Japanese film this is worth a shot. Enjoyable.

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I didn't understand... - TAFKA Steve 14:02:57 08/08/05 (1)
...why the film started out with a narration from the protagonist looking back nearly half a millennium. Is he immortal?
The musician/actor playing the antagonist, Tomoyasu Hotei, is getting a lot of airplay of his instrumental music for "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity", used in Kill Bill Vol. 1, and the recent Jaguar commercials.
- The credits showed "one" after the title as if this was the first of many . . * - mr grits 06:31:40 08/09/05 (0)
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