2001 film from director Hiroyuki Nakano.
Red Shadow, Blue Shadow and Aska are neophyte ninjas under the tutelage of the great warrior White Shadow. Their lives are a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation. Will they survive an obstacle course of death traps, highly skilled opponents and personal struggles against their own weaknesses?
I didn't like this movie. This movie was very boring with lots of bad acting. It is full of stupid, incompetent ninjas. It did have a couple of funny Star Wars scenes. One where a ninja was blocking dozens of throwing weapons with his sword as if he was a Jedi blocking laser blasts with his light saber. Later, a ninja master puts a remote choke hold on an opponent with with a Darth Vader type death grip. I understand that this is probably supposed to be a spoof of classic ninja movies but I guess I am just not sophisticated enough to get the spoof humor in this movie. I didn't think the spoof humor was funny enough for me. I am just a simpleton that likes classic spoof humor from movies like Airplane.
I remember watching this movie with my dad. He thought it was a riot.
ReplyDeleteThe directors also did Samurai Fiction, (like it says on the cover.) I remember there being some tie in to Samurai Fiction, but i don't remember what it was.
Samurai Fiction was a much better movie. It still had its quirky parts, like the yakuza... and the weird relationship between the antagonist and his sidekick.
Samurai Fiction, unlike this movie, captures a taste of the Japanese flair for subtly and raw experience that this movie doesn't. Samurai Fiction flirts some of the feeling that Twilight Samurai is renowned for.
I saw Samurai Fiction as well and also liked it. From what I recall, the beginning of both movies were similar in that incident on the road with the lone samurai who is confronted by the other samurai who refuse to let him pass.
ReplyDeleteI guess for me and spoofs, I like knee slapping humor (Airplane), and this did not have that for me. There were some funny parts though.