Sword Of Vengeance details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Watanabe Fumio, Ito Yunosuke, Tomisaburo Wakayama |
| Director: | Kenji Misumi |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - General, Thriller, World Cinema - Japanese |
| Studio: | EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Sword Of Vengeance |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 25 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not available for rental |
| Main languages: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Original Kill Bill?
By a customer from UK , 13 May 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Well this is the first instalment of the Babycart series about a Samurai who becomes Ronin (Ronin - assasin for hire). It basically sets the story of how Ogami Itto becomes an outkast. He's framed basically. There's not a great deal of action or sword play in this one, as in the next instalment (River Styx) but still watchable and entertaining with some quite fun moments & characters reminiscent of monkee! who get their come upance from Ogami's sword and other weapons. Again picture is dark as an old film and widescreen is very 'letterbox' type to allow for subtitles as it's in Japanese you know Hi! no English dubbing here.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(8)Sword of Vengeance
By shihan (38 reviews) from Halstead , 07 Apr 2010Konnichiwa
The main 'actor' is actually a master swordsman
The period is captured perfectly with lots of accuracy and atmosphere. When you cut a main artery with a sharp bladed weapon, the bloodm flow is pressurised, hence the vivid action scenes. Very realistic and an excellent
showing of the period in Japan. A film not to be missed.
Sayonara- Was this review helpful to you?
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Lone Wolf and Cub
By a customer from Bath , 01 Dec 2006The 'Babycart' series is the cinematic presentation of the fantastic manga by writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima. The films share little of the manga's raw kinetic power in the fight scenes, but try very hard to bring the blood and gore to the big screen in full detail. I am a huge fan of the manga, and the production team have gone to great lengths to replicate each scene - although it is a testament to the epic cinematic nature of the manga that it transfers to screen so well.
I'm not going to rent the rest of the series - I think the manga is far better and all the films are doing is trying to recapture some of that original splendor. Having considered 'Sword of Vengeance', sadly I think they will fail at each step.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Blood, Gore & Samurai Seppuku !
By Bald Mouse from London , 06 Jun 2005An amazing film based around the life of an Executioner, Ogami.
Ousted from his profesion by evil means including the death of his wife Ogami takes to the road with his son as The Lone Wolf & Cub (Assassins for Hire), with the aim to eliminate the Yagyu Clan (people behind his wives death).
Lots of action, blood, gore and great eastern sword fights.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The First of Six
By Artizan from Swindon , 08 Mar 2005The film jumps straight into the character building and gives you an insight into Japanese culture in that period. Those who expect to see action right off the bat will be disappointed as the film takes about 30 minutes before anything really happens.
The story at times can be hard to follow and the Samurai sense of honor; well slightly inept; not to mention really the unnecessary cheap displays of female nudity. The first of six films you have to watch as it sets the background for the subsequent 5 films. My only real complaint with the quality of the DVD is it seems to be smaller than the standard 16:9 format and thus appears that you lose some clipping from the top and bottom. The subtitles are also non functional i.e. they cannot be turned on or off or adjusted size or position (for those who can).- Was this review helpful to you?
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Seventh Samari type fayre
By spongebob2000 from London , 04 Mar 2005The story is not great, and not bad. A Samurai is wrongly disvowed becomes enraged at the murder of his missus and becomes an assasin, to wonder with his young son chopping bad people who are doing wrong into bits, and getting paid for it. The filmography is good enough, the story believable and the martial arts are pretty good. He is pretty good with his sushi knife.
If this is your kind of film then I would say it is 90 minutes of martial art morals and worth the subtitles.- Was this review helpful to you?
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