Vincent
This is a simple, very simple, fantasy film.The central premise is OK, a buried evil being freed by a man seeking power.The acting is bad, the two leads are OK but the rest of the cast are completely unconvincing especially the bee-keeper girl.The fight scenes are very power rangers with lots of fake blood thrown in.The creature is weird but in an almost funny way, they use cheap CGI and it looks like those 1960s films when such things were new, Jason and the Argonauts style.The ending is predictable.It's not an awful film, I didn't feel the need to switch it off, but it's not good.
wordmonkey
Few films try to jam as much into their plots as this one, and it pulls it off in the best tradition of zany, creative, mid-budget exploitation film.Samurai, aliens, magicians, and a demonic monster all converge to make this adventure complete, and its bloodthirsty finale will appease many people's need for gore. You'll wonder what arcane drugs writer/director Keita Amamiya took to come up with the loony and violent scenarios that populate this twisted fantasy/sci-fi hybrid.Amamiya has done many of the "Kamen Rider" pictures, which explains his need to have sexy, helmeted female UFO-nauts in this picture. Indeed, other than the extreme violence, the film feels like a 1960s-era movie, complete with a stop-motion beast straight out of a Ray Harryhausen film.Not to be missed for fans of bizarro midnight movies!
Evan A. Baker
Fun fantasy, with a good cast and neat-looking effects. Amamiya keeps things moving along quickly, and has a good balance of dramatic elements with goofy fun stuff. The score is magnificent. Yuko Moriyama is cool, as always, though I wish she were in the movie a little more. Toshiyuki Nagashima is a great, dignified lead. Hiroshi Abe is one of the coolest dudes in cinema today, and it's a pleasure to watch him killing loads of bad guys in efficient ways.
Chibi Riza
I finally got to see this,after waiting for 2 years or so to come out,and let me tell you,it was definetly worth the wait."Tao no Tsuki" (Moon of Tao) is one of the best films that distort Medival Japan.Forget "Ninja Scroll",Tao is the one,PLUS,there is a really big hard-to-destroy monster in there by the name of Makarage (is that how you spell it's name).But be warned,the ending is rather distressing.*No spoilers,SORRY!*
