2/17/2023 0 Comments Blade of the immortal![]() ![]() ![]() There is an actual river of blood.ĭoing most of the killing is Manji (stone-cold fox Takuya Kimura), a skilled samurai who has been granted the power, and curse, of immortality by an 800-year-old female Japanese Yoda figure in a white hood who appears on battlefields - and regular fields - to drop wisdom and change lives. By the end of the movie, which is based on a manga comic and premiered Thursday as a Cannes Film Festival Midnight selection, that body count is easily in the hundreds. In the final overhead shot of the bravura black-and-white opening sequence, I counted 34 bodies, with probably 20 more onscreen, before the camera cut away. A few seconds later, two people have been gutted or cleaved in two by sword. The first image of samurai revenge thriller Blade of the Immortal (Mugen no Jûgen) - the 100th (!) film from insanely productive Japanese director Takashi Miike - is a blood splatter, in blackest black, across the screen. ![]()
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