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Princess Blade [DVD] [2001]

DVD ~ Yumiko Shaku
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Yumiko Shaku, Hideaki Ito, Yoichi Numata, Shirô Sano, Kyusaku Shimada
  • Directors: Shinsuke Sato
  • Writers: Shinsuke Sato, Kazuo Kamimura, Kazuo Koike, Kei Kunii
  • Producers: John Ledford, Mark Williams, Takashige Ichise
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Sep 2002
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006G9XQ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,553 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Shinsuke Sato's The Princess Blade is, in some respects, a standard Japanese action adventure with a lot of swordplay and repayment of blood debts; but it differs in that it stretches the formula in interesting ways. Its moody angst is turned up to full power and it has a twilit elegiac quality, a sense of the sadness of things, which is at once very Japanese and very stylish.

Yukio is one of the assassins of the house of Takemikazuchi, a group of exiled royal guards from a neighbouring kingdom who have created a life in the isolated low-tech kingdom Japan has become in some near future. She is in fact the last of the original Takemikazuchi family, who have gradually been marginalised and murdered. Informed of this and on the run from her fellow swordsmen, she takes refuge with, and falls for, Takashi, an assassin of a more modern kind, an alienated young man whose concern for his retarded sister sits uneasily with his bomb-making. The film moves steadily from explosions of passionate action beautifully choreographed to quiet intense moments of stillness, ending ambiguously on the latter. It is a superior film in its genre because it coherently questions the values and actions it celebrates. --Roz Kaveney

Special Features
Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
Japanese
Region 0
Dolby Digital Japanese
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
Marl Wyatt Film Notes
Asia Extreme Film Reel
English


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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars If Kurosawa was alive today..., 28 Dec 2002
...then he might be making films like this.

Set 500 years in the future, a group of assassins live and die by the sword. Princess Yuki is one of them and is about to find out a dark secret within the clan. I won't say to much about the plot as i hate it when people tell you every detail, but i will say that it is definitely worth a look.

The action is choreographed by Donnie Yen (legend) and is carried out by the actors with distinctive style and deliverance. I have to say that i was not so keen on the action at first but the more times you watch it, the more it grows on you. There is some seriously cool usage of special effects and while you are told it is set in the future it is merely hinted at which pays off very well.

The Directors use of nature and pale tones also add to a beautiful and interesting world that we are shown. Further adding to the reflective beauty is the music by Kengi Kawa (excuse my spelling) who also did the soundtracks to "ring" and "ghost in the shell".

As I said previously it deals with subject matters familiar to those of Akira Kurosawa. Perhaps this is said too much but is very true and because of this i recommend it to anyone with those tastes.

The DVD itself is quite lacking though the sound and picture transfer are clear and in places very sharp. Filmographies, some interesting film notes by Mark Wyatt and a trailer are the only extras included.

I give the film a four but seeing that I am also reviewing the product it has to be a three due to the lack of extra features.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A very surprising little princess, 8 Jul 2005
By S. Finlay "sgscf" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Princess Blade [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Actually bought this purely as a cheap "well if it sucks so what it's got a Japanese girl with a katana on the cover" dvd. Guess what? It's surprisingly good and far better than Ryuhei Katamura's "Asumi". The story is simply told and avoids the bubblegum excesses of most Anime crossovers. Yumiko Shaku plays it very straight and this, combined with Donnie "we're not worthy" Yen's inventive fight choreography, make it more believeable than most. The dark, apocalyptic future is well but subtly portrayed and some of the cinematography is quite beautiful.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Asia Extreme - without going too far, for once...., 30 Jan 2005
By Joe (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
The beautiful, moody Yumiko Shaku kicks ass (repeatedly) in this dark movie. Well, not that dark for a japanese film, actually. If you like Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Battle Royale etc.), you'll like Yumiko. Its a fair attempt to envisage a post apocalyptic 'Japan' (non-specific). Without risking too much, the low-budget computer graphics and under developed story line aren't a big problem. The fight scenes are awsome at times.

Could have done with -

Bigger investment;

40mins longer;

Better story line direction;

Chiaki Kuriyama.

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