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Starring	Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu
Director	Sogo Ishii
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Gojoe

An extravagant adventure fantasy in the samurai tradition, 'Gojoe' is a special effects-filled joyride with that increasingly anomalous trait: a thoughtful story. Benkei is a former warrior who has become a Buddhist monk, but when the GoJoe Bridge turns into the scene of a massacre, with an unknown force beheading countless Heike soldiers, he receives the call to fight via a Sanskrit inscription that appears on his chest. He joins forces with an unlikely ally, Testukichi, a sword scavenger who robs corpses and has no use for Benkei's Buddhist tendencies. The two discover that their opponent is not a demon fulfilling a famous prophecy, as rumour would have it, but a fallen prince determined to reclaim his power. After the prince murders Benkei's superior monk, Benkei finds the strength to overcome his misgivings regarding violence and vanquish the enemy that menaces the GoJoe Bridge.

Starring	Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu
Director	Sogo Ishii
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 18 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 10 Apr 2006

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- Ishii's epic rethink of the Genji-Heike clan wars of the 12th century is superbly cast and designed, full of visual... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
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  Not quite a samurai movie
  
  I can't say I didn't enjoy Gojoe. The storyline, concerning an Japanese folk story of an evil demon inhabiting Gojoe Bridge was interesting enough, the ... read more »
  
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  - Jacob Browne
  - Liverpool, England
  - 10 Aug 2007 at 12:54
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  Ghostbusters meets Samurai Anime
  
  This film really does get a bit ridiculous. Though the ending was actually quite good and well built up.
  
  When i read this, i just thought, taken too ... read more »
  
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  - Glasgow
  - 09 Oct 2008 at 20:13
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  Halfway through the incredibly excessive 2 hours of this film I discovered that I could still read the subtitles while fastforwarding it... I might not have ... read more »
  
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  - Norwich
  - 18 Jul 2008 at 19:23
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  Not quite a samurai movie
  
  I can't say I didn't enjoy Gojoe. The storyline, concerning an Japanese folk story of an evil demon inhabiting Gojoe Bridge was interesting enough, the ... read more »
  
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  - 10 Aug 2007 at 12:54
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  An extravagant adventure fantasy in the samurai tradition, 'Gojoe' is a special effects-filled joyride with that increasingly anomalous trait: a thoughtful story. Benkei is a former warrior who has become a Buddhist monk, but when the GoJoe Bridge turns into the scene of a massacre, with an unknown ...