Takayuki Yamaguchi (Akitashoten) / Shigurui Partners.It is brilliant and horrible at the same time, and while I do think it’s worth watching I’m not sure anyone-not even a fan of this material-needs to see it more than once. The whole package has been put together with consummate craft. Everyone involved had serious intentions, and believed they had good reasons for doing what they did: to hammer home how the almost coolly abstract “way of the sword” in classical Japan was bought and paid for in terms of mangled bodies and ruined lives. People are disemboweled, dismembered, beheaded have noses and jaws and faces torn off, sliced off, smashed off are burnt, blinded, disfigured raped, groped, tormented.Īnd yet this isn’t a cheap piece of exploitation trash like Eiken or Colorful!. On the one hand, Shigurui is brilliant and artfully assembled-as much a cold-blooded dissection of depraved human behavior as it is a showcase for it, about how culture and circumstance and social abstracts can turn people into total monsters. It will also cause most people-those who aren’t gorehounds, anyway-to lose their lunch.
Here is a story that operates with the same level of merciless and inhumane skill, the better to systematically drain every ounce of humanity and compassion out of its characters. The mark of a skilled executioner in feudal Japan was to be able to slice off the head of a victim and yet still leave it attached to the corpse by a single shred of flesh. 1 External Movie Reviews:īy Serdar Yegulalp on 05:09:08 No comments
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