Blade of the Immortal
The 100th feature by genre master Takashi Miike transcends conventions of Japanese swordplay films with both fantasy and graphic violence.
Blade of the Immortal
In Takashi Miike’s 100th feature film, an immortal warrior teams with a young girl out for revenge. A bloody Samurai epic from an actual living legend.
Samurai Manji has taken a lot of lives, both innocent and guilty, and now lives life in feudal Japan as a criminal. After being cursed with immortality until he kills enough evil men, Manji meets a young girl who enlists him to be her body-guard. Swearing loyalty, protection and vengeance against the group of sword fighters who slaughtered her family, the unlikely duo set on a remarkable quest to make right against those who did them wrong.
Samurai Manji has taken a lot of lives, both innocent and guilty, and now lives life in feudal Japan as a criminal. After being cursed with immortality until he kills enough evil men, Manji meets a young girl who enlists him to be her body-guard. Swearing loyalty, protection and vengeance against the group of sword fighters who slaughtered her family, the unlikely duo set on a remarkable quest to make right against those who did them wrong.
Genre
Action,
Drama,
Martial Arts
Runtime
141
Language
Japanese
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Takuya Kimura,
Hana Sugisaki,
Sôta Fukushi
FEATURED REVIEW
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Not often do you encounter a movie about slicing, dicing samurai vivisecting each other into gory chunks that is also a thing of beauty. The exceptionally bloody yet lively, darkly humorous and gorgeous “Blade of the Immortal” achieves that rare status. It transforms a timeworn genre piece into an ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 11.10.17 - 11.15.17
Playhouse 7 11.10.17 - 11.16.17
NoHo 7 11.10.17 - 11.16.17
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