A very beautiful film, Goemon is well-known Japanese legendary Thief, the story put him as Oda Nobunaga's men, and also the legendary ninja Hattori Hanzo's disciples, and also become the one who assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi's hero. As an adaptation from history and legend story, the story can fit vey well.
There are many CGI in this movie, too many. These make the movie look unrealistic. All special stunt or move is only depand on CGI, It basicly look more like a video game than a movie.
Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional with her sword skills. One day she being rape by a man, she was exodus from her group. After that she killed the man who raped her and starting her journey to find the man who teach her sword skills, whom she dunno neither her father or not.
My Tough:
Samurai's movie have always been my favorite.
I am very impress of the actress who plays the main heroine; Haruka Ayase. She very suitable for role with no emotion or eye without focus / no blink, in the movie my girlfriend is a robot (Click here to see her other movies), she played the Robots, now the Blind Girl (both emotionless) very well, she even make me believe that the heroine is a true blind.
In other hand, the actor who plays "Toma" is not very suitable. I think that character should be more rogue. And I think that the plot of this movie is too early to review that "Toma" is actually a sword master (middle part), it should be review only when he fighting hand to hand (near end part) to the yakuza Boss, that will bring more surprises.
Comment:
Not everyone like Samurai's movie, plus the progressing of the movie is bit slow (a blind walk twice slower than normal), so if you don't like samurai films then you can SKIP this movie. However, if you like samurai films, or Haruka Ayase's FANS, you will certainly check this out.
Don't like samurai films = 2.5 / 5 Like samurai films = 3.5 / 5 Like samurai films, but also as Haruka Ayase 's FANS = 4 / 5
Now, I make a list for people to know how to measure my mater standards .
A scale of 5:
5 / 5 = perfect score = movie that time must seen at least once in life time , sure will die without eyes close if not seen. But I never gave a perfect score for any movie yet, because I think that all movies still has room for improvement.
4.5 / 5 = masterpiece = Movies with these score sure will be my BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME.
4 / 5 = good made =Movies with these score easily be my BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.
3.5 / 5 = = most commonly score. nothing good but also nothing bad. Okay movie.
3 / 5 = 3 is those movie only worth a look when you are free.
under 2.5 = poor, normally I will not write reviews for movie under that score.