bbally81 This was a great anime. True the animation is old but its still worth watching and has a better plot than Ninja Scroll, the problem that it was kinda long.Japanese movie star Hiroyuki Sanada who played Ujio from Last Samurai played the main character Jiro and it was directed by Rintaro who did Galaxy Express 999 and Metropolis.The anime has some good animation for an old anime, interesting characters like the main villain Tenkai and Ando Shouzan and of course lets not forget the beautiful musical scores in the film.All in all this movie is worth watching for fans of anime, animation in general, action, and Samurai/Ninja flicks. Despite the lows in the film that didn't the film from being a great film to watch.Don't miss this film.

moroboshi-3 Interesting how all of the negative reviews for Kamui no Ken seem to have risen to the top. So I figured I might as well add my opinion just to keep this all in perspective. Yes, this movie is about 15-30 minutes too long. Yes, there are about 3 too many plot twists. And yes, the majority of the mainstream "We love Ninja Scroll" anime crowd will likely it. But Kamui no Ken has stuck with me over the years, and is easily one of my favorite anime titles.Rin Taro is a brilliant director, but his films take getting used to. He often uses a very slow pace, and allows periods of silence and dead space to make his powerful images have even more impact. Kamui no Ken is the long, winding oddessy of a young boy who goes from a foundling to a true ninja warrior. Many, many things happen along the way, and the movie chronicles ALL of them. This epic scope will either make the film fascinating, or boring. It all depends on you. Personally, I loved it. The characters are uniformly amazing, and as I have said before, the film is awash with brilliant imagery. It feels much closer to the style of classic Japanese historical drama than the splattering action of Ninja Scroll or the Kenshin OVA's (both of which I also loved).Problem... it drags. and it runs on for quite a long time. One plot twist in particular (MINOR SPOILER, NO SPECIFICS) involves the apparent death of an evil character. This will seem terribly implausible, even ludicrous, to American audiences (Although from the traditional Japanese storytelling perspective, this is much less far fetched). Individually, I can't think of many scenes to cut (one showdown in the wild west was perhaps unneccessary), but even these scenes are very cool in their own way. If this movie weren't so long and epic, it wouldn't be as interesting as it is.Basically, it depends on you. If you REALLY love the ancient japanese tradition, and enjoy the more serious, dramatic aspect to samurai/ninja tales, you will enjoy Kamui no Ken. But casual anime fans may be disappointed.

Blinking_Fish This movie was a little to long. It could have easily been shorter and considering what I thought of the movie it should have been shorter. I thought this ran for a bit to long, it was manly because it had a deep story to it. I just saw points that could have easily been cut out but weren't. The story had its highs and low, more lows then highs. And the lows kept the movie dragging along. The artwork in this was very familiar. Like I' ve seen it before, probably from Galaxy Express 999. One other thing I thought about this was what's the deal with the blood. The blood was bright orange. Blood does not need to be this bright and that colour. The people seemed to spurt radioactive Orange juice when they where killed. Anyways this movie was watchable. It's probably a little too violent and long for younger people. And the fact that it's animation my turn off adults.My review 5 out of 10.

deepcheck Above all, you must not take this movie seriously. It takes itself seriously, unfortunately, but that can't be helped. This anime ninja flic has to be the crowning achievement in spoiling what could have been an endearing, if unoriginal, story with bad plot twists, ridiculous time-killing cutscenes, and one outrageous guest appearance which will either make you laugh or groan (or both, like me).While I'm typically a fan of ninja/samurai anime (Ninja Scroll and Rurouni Kenshin to name a few), this one has to be the exception. For the record, from a technical point of view of its time, this movie was very well animated and constructed. It is just the plot that stunk. The authors of this movie clearly decided (for what rational reason I don't know) that they could somehow make up for the lack of a script if the character halfway around the world in search of a treasure that (he learns) his father fought and died for. In the process, he saves a black slave named Sam, meets a French girl who is living in an Apache village, makes friends with a ninja clan whose members then try to kill him, meets more family members then he knew he had in the weirdest places and circumstances (and whom all subsequently die at some point in the movie).Even so far, these ludicrous plot twists could be excused, but then come the two "guest appearances". #1: After having a ridicuously cliche showdown with two cowboys, Jiro meets a man who introduces himself as "Mark Twain". At this point, you're probably saying "What the ****?!!" This "meeting" serves one purpose: it entirely discredits a movie which tries to add to itself an educated historical background. I found it disappointing that the authors went to all this trouble to research the 1860s US and didn't manage to realize that "Mark Twain's" real name was Samuel Clemens. #2: When Jiro finally finds the treasure, it turns out that it used to belong to Captain Kidd. I can hear the groans of disgust now.Finally, there are the running scenes. These scenes show various characters running, with the landscape moving statically behind them, for several minutes, and there are a lot of them. It is these scenes which make this movie, 2hrs 12 min, to seem to last a week and a half.If you and your friends are looking for a bad subtitled movie that just asks to be made fun of, this is it. Feel free to poke fun at every possible aspect of it, and have fun. Just don't take it seriously. 3/10