The Samurai I Loved 2005 123movies

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Plot: A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who’s lethal with a blade, yet still can’t rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord’s concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.
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Anyhting Shochiku can do Toho can do better (well perhaps not better, but pretty good anyway)
Bunshiro, a young samurai finds himself on the wrong side of clan politics when his father is accused of plotting against the clan and forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). He and his mother find themselves evicted from their home and forced to live in a hovel. But Bunshiro is a talented swordsman and after a time he is reinstated and becomes a magistrate, filling the same job as his father. As he tours the countryside he discovers the political maneuvering which led to his fathers death is still widespread, and his childhood love who is now one of the lord’s concubines has become an unwilling pawn. She has given birth to a boy and a rival faction has decided to kill the boy and blame Bunshiro.

Based on a story by Shuhei Fujisawa, who also wrote the stories “Twilight Samurai” and “Hidden Blade”, Semi Shigure is a personal and intimate portrait of the life of a lowly ranked samurai. For fans of the genre, it’s a must see.

Boring And Blurry.
THE SAMURAI I LOVED / CICADA CHIRPING (LIT.) (SEMISHIGURE). Viewed on DVD. Subtitles = seven (7) stars; score = seven (7) stars; costumes = four (4) stars; choreography = four (4) stars; surround sound = four (4) stars; cinematography = two (2) stars. Director Mitsuo Kurotsuchi (who is also credited as co-screen writer) delivers an Edo period non-starter “love story” that is uneven, snail-paced, and mostly emotionless as well as poorly photographed, costumed, choreographed. The movie might be summed up as: teenage boy meets teenage girl, boy loses girl (and Vice Versa), boy (now grown) re-meets (after two hours of confusing plot trivia) mature girl, but its way, way too late (including for the audience that hasn’t fallen asleep). To say that the actors lack direction would be a bit of an understatement. A noticeable mismatch in the similarity of teenage actors and their adult counterparts does not seem to help matters. Inter-scene continuity also falls by the wayside as editing makes for nonsense in the last quarter of the movie. Costumes (even those worn by characters at court) look cheap. Sword-swinging choreography (there is about five minutes in total) appears fairly phony with stunt actors being permanently incapacitated from a sword whacking while “good-guys” after being slashed in the same way seem fine and/or recover completely in the next scene or two! Except for medium shots using a telephoto lens to capture shimmering waves of heat, cinematography (wide-screen, color) is a disaster zone. Scenes (especially exteriors) are fuzzy-filtered as if photographed through mosquito netting! Many are also not quite in focus. Lead actress Yoshino Kimura’s different size eyes are usually on full display (particularly in close-ups due to the use of unflattering camera angles) which can distract from her performance. Surround sound fields are poor to nonexistent. Score is very good and ranges from rousing music played by a small orchestra to haunting single notes from a piano. Subtitles are well done. The viewer has a choice of colors for expository text and lines delivered by different characters. Inter-scene consistency for the latter is fine. Great shots of cicada and snakes. WILLIAM FLANIGAN, PhD.

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Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 11 min (131 min) (Japan)
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Status Released
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Genre Drama, Romance
Director Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
Writer Shûhei Fujisawa, Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
Actors Somegorô Ichikawa, Yoshino Kimura, Kôji Imada
Country Japan
Awards 3 wins & 13 nominations
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