Beautiful legend - nice fights.

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2004)

This movie is really great, with very nice pictures and colors; the atmosphere is very cool, asian philosophy very well put into action. The strong logic of honor and those ideas is to be admired. Honor and love.
The story that is repeating is every time more interesting and with different meaning. When you see the drama in such a dÃ©cor. Broken sword and his death over and over. And the fight after that, his servant with the beautiful ex-lover (with yellow leafs and all - when she dies everything becomes red). Today in real life and movies people are people but in this one they have moral axioms long disappeared from society.
So besides very nice filming there are fighting scenes that you have to admire, then some nice special effects and visual ones (the waves of arrows for example with that sound), and of course the ideas in the movie makes me thing is more than just another martial arts exhibition. It was an very pleasant surprise.