musashi miyamoto has so much aura. if he saw this he would be like "oh thats me? pure aura"
somewhere between melancholy with its colors and texture while allowing miyamoto's arc to breath from beginning to end. while i think the fight choreography can look fake at times since you don't really feel the impact of every slash, the fight scenes do have some nice blocking.
i don't know, i just love samurai films.(watch my filmography: https://boxd.it/2A45h )
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Rating
4.5 (1)
Release Date
7/12/1955Runtime
103 minsOverview
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
JapaneseBudget
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How It Feels
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A measured meditation on mastery and its cost, unfolding as a masterless swordsman moves deliberately toward a reckoning that has consumed his life. The film builds tension through restraint, finding drama in stillness and glances as much as in steel.
Mood
TenseDefiantContemplative
Themes
ObsessionRedemptionIdentity
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticFormalistWidescreen epic
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
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