cool and at times beautiful samurai movie, with the most lousy ending

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2004)

I'm into samurai stuff! Hence I like movies in that genre as well. This movie has a lot of cool stuff, but at times, it just doesn't make sense. For instance, the rebel leader knows English?? They practice fighting in the open for the peasants to see?? The samurai allows the soldiers to cut his hair?? And finally, I'm not sure that they are holding the sword as one is supposed to.. but I guess there are hundreds of swords schools in Japan each with its set of rules for that.
The movie is really worth seeing, although its 1/2 hour to long to my taste, and the ending which is stupid, bad and insulting to the viewer. 8/10.