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Movie Review: “Samurai Fury” Triggers an Insurrection in Old Nippon
A badass ronin swaggers and slices his way through Medieval Kyoto in “Samurai Fury,” an action epic about a tax revolt in a time of plague and famine. Ryosuke Kakine’s historical novel — “Muromachi Outsiders” — was inspired by real … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Last Ronin” wanders Futuristic Russia looking for Bullets
“The Last Ronin” is a derivative, dull and exeptionally slow martial arts variation of the Hero Wanders the Wasteland quest that we’ve seen in scores of martial arts sagas, Westerns and sci-fi over the centuries. A man of violence meets … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalyptic-cinema, movie-review, ninja, putins-wasteland, russian-film, samurai, sci-fi
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