I had this gnawing feeling...

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2003)

...that something was amiss.
This is a great movie if one knows nothing about the Japanese culture, and the world of the Samurai, and I don't. However, throughout the two and a half hour of the movie I had this disturbing feeling that if I did know about these subjects, then there would have been glaring inconsistencies with the real world, and what the movie portrayed. Honestly I cannot point out the parts at which this feeling spiked. Also, the narration, which simply spoke the words that Algren was writing in his journal, seemed to merely be there to express a vapid admiration of the Samurai culture; in short, it did not seem sincere.
Maybe some of you will agree.