an inaccurate story overly dramatized with scenes too long

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2004)

This was pretty much a 105 minute movie drawn out for 150 minutes for no good reason. Furthermore, the over-romanticizing of the Samurai in the latter half of the 19th century was a poor portrayal of the actual situation. Lastly, the dialogue and script had all the sublety of a two-by-four upside the head