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Title: samurai masterpiece
Review: A masterpiece! What clear, simple storytelling -- it makes you care for the people in it, even as it builds relentlessly toward a climax in which every measured cinematic stroke that went before pays off by creating the deepest emotions in the midst of a paroxysm of bloody slaughter. I love the echoes, in that gory and deeply disturbing final battle scene, of two other great samurai classics: HARIKIRIHarakiri (The Criterion Collection)and SWORD OF DOOM (Daibosatsu Toge)The Sword of Doom (The Criterion Collection). Like those two earlier films, SWORD OF DESPERATION is almost morbidly critical of samurai society; but, unlike them, it is not in the least nihilistic. You are likely to leave the movie feeling uplifted and inspired and loving the simple greatness of ordinary human beings.
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