This is a joke, right?

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2003)

The first half is OK, but chapters in Japan are purely awful. Judging from the high rating of this film, I must conclude that non-Japanese audience didn't find absurdity in Uma's and Lucy's Japanese or unrealistic sword fighting scenes. My 3-year-old nephew speaks much better Japanese than those two actresses. Their pronunciation was so bad that they sounded like mentally ill.
In Japan, TV is showing much more authentic sword fight scenes almost everyday. Uma looks quite weak. No authenticity in her.
All in all, worse than Pearl Harbor. There's nothing wrong with an American who doesn't know enough about Japanese culture or language. But it's different when he makes a movie about it. I'm sure American people will find it offensive when a foreign filmmaker who doesn't know much about western or cowboy makes a non-authentic western film.