First things first: THIS DOES NOT PLAY ON THE PS2!! I
HAD TO USE THE COMPUTER TO WATCH IT!!!
This was so long I had to divide the movie into two discs!
These are copied from VCR tapes!! They have released
this on DVD! Probably won't buy it! Another note here,
these are sub titled, thus you have to read it as well as
watch it!!
DAGGER OF KAMUI
This is incredibly hard to follow! Especially trying
to figure out the main theme of the movie!! It
appears, on the surface, that the only reason to
make this was to kill off just about anyone you
got to care about!! But I guess it had a purpose,
but, even having watched the whole 2 1/2 hours,
I still don't know what it was!!!! B-
A review from IMDb.com:
This was a great anime. True the animation is
old but its still worth watching and has a better
plot than Ninja Scroll, the problem that it was
kinda long.
Japanese movie star Hiroyuki Sanada who played
Ujio from Last Samurai played the main character
Jiro and it was directed by Rintaro who did Galaxy
Express 999 and Metropolis.
The anime has some good animation for an old
anime, interesting characters like the main villain
Tenkai and Ando Shouzan and of course lets not
forget the beautiful musical scores in the film.
All in all this movie is worth watching for fans
of anime, animation in general, action, and
Samurai/Ninja flicks. Despite the lows in the
film that didn't the film from being a great film
to watch.
Don't miss this film. - bbally81