Top 250? Are you kidding me?

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2005)

This is the worst bastardization of Japanese history and culture I've seen in a last time. The producers and directors must have pieced together Japanese history from old episodes of Teenage mutant ninja turtles.
1) Just because a film is placed in Japan does not mean it requires ninjas, not to mention there were ninjas in 1860/70's Japan. I thought I was watching a bad cartoon. 2) Why are Japanese samurai's in the late 19th century fighting like they're in medieval Europe? 3) Which side did Watanabe's character fight for in the revolution? Please, tell me, b/c either way the story makes no sense.