When the Last Sword Is Drawn (DVD)

Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: Yojiro Takita / Actors: Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato ... ... more

When the Last Sword Is Drawn (DVD) ... / DVD released 27 December, 2005 at Fox Lorber / Features of the DVD: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC

Newest Review: ... The kindly doc takes them in for a quick once over and its there that the man spies a faded and framed picture of a noble ... more

... looking Samurai in the docs boxed up belongings. We discover there’s an unlikely connection between the two. Instantly recognising the man in the picture, the stranger enquires how the doc got it, the physician revealing they are related. And its here the two men begin to recite the history of the photo through detailed flashback and layered narration, each telling their chunk of the story on this ignoble man. The man in the picture is Kaniduro Yoshimura (Kiichi Nakai), the doc’s grandfather and a once a revered an...more

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	When the Last Sword Is Drawn [DVD] [2002][Region 1] [US Import] [ ... Release Date: 2005 - 12 - 27, Last Update 22.12.2009 05:45	£ 8.31

When the Last Sword Is Drawn [DVD] [2002][Region 1] [US Import] [ ...
Release Date: 2005 - 12 - 27,

Last Update 22.12.2009 05:45

£ 8.31

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When the Last Sword Is Drawn (DVD): Samurai Hustle! (991 words)
by - written on 25/04/07 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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We’ve all seen a few swords drawn in Japan over the years and this Asian Extreme film won’t be the last to flash the steel. But what I like about this particular one-winner of the Japanese 2003 Oscar for best film-is the way it brings you the everyday life of the Samurai assassins by fleshing out the people under the kimonos as well as the legend. All too often it’s just a lot of swishing razor sharp blades, rolling heads and not so clever ancient sayings, although there are a few rolling heads here if that’s your thing. The downfall of the Samurai is a well trodden path on celluloid, the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise being a particularly pleasing version from ... Read the complete review

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