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Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
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80
If you are going to see one outlandish and occasionally nauseating bloodbath samurai pic this year, this is the one.
80
Village Voice
Come for the gory swordplay, stay for the half-serious melodrama.
75
Slant Magazine
Takashi Miike's film is a work of robust genre craftsmanship that's informed with a sly sense of self-interrogation.
75
The movie also runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, which is a lot of dead samurai. The violence is often numbing, and the translations — the movie is subtitled — are sometimes as deadly as the swordsmanship. On the other hand, Blade of the Immortal is flat-out gorgeous. Widescreen, lush, beautiful.
70
Miike’s facility for the sharply sketched portrait, in between bouts of bladed mayhem, remains as shrewd as ever.
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