Excellent Homage !!!

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2006)

Well, reading some other viewer's comments and their dislike of this movie I have to say for its defense. If you aren't into Shaw Brother Movies/LoneWolf and Cub/The Bride wore Black etc. don't watch this movie. If you are you will have the fun of your life watching Tarantino mixing up popular heroes (Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo) from Asian movies together with a drama-action movie from the sixties. The film starts not with warner Bros. but with Shaw Brothers, which makes clear where this film is going to take you. Many quotes from different movies, figures are placed into the movie for lovers to recognize. Same as the music: using Kinji Fukasaku's Battles without honor and humanity or the title theme of Lady Snowblood : Love Song of Carnage. The violence is typically Japanese style overdone for the comic factor. You can't really take it serious anymore. Anybody who feels offended took it way to serious. Brilliant movie...I loved it...all actors had pure fun.....