![]() The movie has a perfect cast, and it delivers plenty of the gore and violence that Samura seemed to relish early in his career, but unlike the manga series, the movie never takes its eye off Manji and the sacrifices he makes to help Rin with her quest. The Blade manga series takes a turn about midway through and more obviously becomes a tale of Rin turning into a confident leader and a strong warrior in her own right-and on her own timeframe and her own terms-after much self-doubt and questioning. This is all Manji's movie, but I feel the manga series is ultimately about Rin finding herself and evolving into a confident leader who will revive her family’s sword school one day, filling her father's shoes. The film focuses on the sensationalism of Manji, his possible immortality, and the other colorful warriors and weapons in this reimagined Edo-era world. Overall, though, the film focuses on roughly the first half of the original manga series before going its own way and cleaving itself a new ending that doesn't quite match up with the manga. (The epic manga series is collected into 30 Japanese volumes, 31 Dark Horse Manga volumes, and now a series of Blade of the Immortal Omnibus Volumes, which would be a lot to cover in just one film.) Screenwriter Tetsuya Oishi did an excellent job of pulling a few elements from the mind-blowing final volumes of the manga series into the movie. But if you want to enjoy more of the story after the film, be sure to check out the manga! Director Takashi Miike didn't finish reading the manga series, as he admitted in a recent interview, but his team did an excellent job of compressing approximately the first half of Samura's epic tale into a two-and-a-half-hour spectacle. It will start showing in American theaters starting November 3.If you're interested in seeing Takashi Miike's Blade of the Immortal film adaptation, but you haven't read the original manga series by Hiroaki Samura that it's based on, you'll be fine. 'Blade of the Immortal' premiered in Japan back in AprilĢ9. He is also directing the upcoming movieĪdaptation for 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond IsĬonsidering the theme for 'Blade of the Immortal', itĪppears that Miike is the right man for the job, as seen in the bloody Notorious in depicting scenes of extreme violence and sexual perversions Takashi Miike is well-known as a prolific director and has become To circumstances, Manji cannot die and can even reattach limbs afterīeing cleanly severed. Mid-Tokugawa Shogunate era, the story follows cursed samurai Manji. Japanese manga of the same title by Hiroaki Samura. 'Blade of the Immortal' is the movie adaptation of a Showcases a bit more gore and blood splatter to whet the appetite of ![]() Retrieved from Ī new English subtitled trailer for 'Blade of the Immortal' APA style: WATCH: 'Blade of the Immortal' trailer previews gory samurai movie.WATCH: 'Blade of the Immortal' trailer previews gory samurai movie." Retrieved from MLA style: "WATCH: 'Blade of the Immortal' trailer previews gory samurai movie." The Free Library. ![]()
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