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2011
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2008
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2018
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2014
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2014
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2021
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2021
13 Assassins(Movie), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai(Movie), Mugen no Juunin(TV), Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins(Movie), Zatoichi(Movie), Bleach(Movie), Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno(Movie), Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends(Movie), First Love(Movie), Rurouni Kenshin: The Final(Movie), Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning(Movie)
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i got halfway through this and lemme say you can really feel the fact this is 150 minutes long. i appreciate miike because he's got a sense of humor and the fact his movies feel like movies and not j-dramas... but this barely had any levity and i found it about as interesting as the manga, which is not a whole lot. to me it just reads as a string of violent, meaningless sword fights. read
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this was fun. it was as brutally violent as it was witty. takashi miike's 100th film is an impeccably crafted crowd pleaser, full of sword fights, limb-hacking, revenge, and all those great things. the dynamic between manji and rin is especially good, managing to be layered and occasionally heartwarming without being needlessly complex- as the genre is usually inclined to be. i will say that the movie's plot, by design, goes in circles rather than in a straight line. this can be vaguely off putting, and the movie does play with nothing but overly familiar elements, yet none of this is enough... read
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