SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Anssi Vartiainen In the post-apocalyptic future the former guardians of the emperor have become a clan of assassins. But now their princess has departed from their ranks after finding out that the steward of the clan does not have her best interests in mind. And now she must flee from them all. The assassins, the government, the everyday people.The Princess Blade is based on the manga Lady Snowblood by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura, and it is very much style over substance. But it is good style. The opening fight pretty much sets the tone for the entire film. If you're not hooked after it, you can safely turn the TV off or look for something else to watch. The film is barely nothing more than one big katana fight after another, with crazy stunts, back flips, lots of swords doing that drawing sound they never do in real life, cool poses and people getting cut down.Though to be fair, the story isn't all that bad. It just isn't focused on enough. The Princess Yuki (Yumiko Shaku) flees from everything she has ever known and meets Takashi (Hideaki Ito) a rebel against the government, being forced to hide in his home. Both Shaku and Ito are good actors and have genuine chemistry together. It's just that aside from the action scenes, the movie is pretty hard to follow. People have conversations together, but none of the scenes connect with one another and in the end you're not really sure what this all means for the characters and the world they live in.There are also some rather strange touches and details in the story, but I blame the fact that they were adapting a manga series for those. Such details can always seem strange and superfluous if you're not careful about which scenes to add and which to leave out.All in all, The Princess Blade is worth a watch if you'd like to see a kung fu action film that takes place in the post-apocalyptic future. Its story is not terribly exciting, but the action scenes are good enough for you to enjoy the film as a whole.

Ben Brown Thanks for watching the movie. Sorry you haven't seen any Japanese films worth watching. Do us all a favor, however, and please don't slam all Asian films as being inferior to Hollywood. If that's not a contradiction then I really must be missing something.I don't think a movie like this should be considered great cinema, but it also shouldn't be put on the same level as a Wesley Snipes or Jean-Claude flick. This is a movie written by comic book artists and adapted to film. Along those lines, it did a hell of a lot better than a bunch of crappy animated-turned-movie flicks.But I'm not writing this to defend this movie, I'm writing it to defend film making in general. To watch Godzilla and a couple of other stereotyped Japanese films and then talk about how they're almost rating up to Hollywood is kind of like calling my mother a whore and yourself the son of a turtle. I don't expect you to get that reference, because it comes from a culture that you obviously don't understand.If you'd like to learn a bit more about the culture you're slamming, watch Ichii the Killer, or better yet, Swallowtail Butterfly, if you can find it. Ichii the Killer isn't the best Japanese film I've ever seen (Swallowtail Butterfly is), but it's way the hell up there in relation to such Hollywood crap-tas-tics as Titanic and Predator II.Special effects do not make great cinema. Neither does something being made in the US, Japan, Russia, or my butt. Great cinema, like all great works of art, comes from great minds. Neither of us possess these talents, but unlike you, I will first learn about a culture before I slam it (and by learning about it, I am destined to end up NOT slamming it), and I will spend more time looking at the world from the eye of someone who wishes to learn rather than bash.....present case excepted.Have a day.

Mystical_lonewolf I first saw this poster and thought, "Wow, this seems interesting." so i hoped to find it and found it at best buy. I have the special edition one.This film is about Yuki, born and bred assassin in Japan. She learns the truth about her mother's death and seeks revenge also meets a guy who was in the group of terrorists. The two have slowly became to be friendly and learn from each other. Yuki has learned to understand human emotions and of reason for killing as Takashi quits the terrorist group.The ending was actually a sad ending, and i feel that it was bit brutal of the director. I really like this film, it is worth my money to see this. Anyone who thinks this film sucks must be something wrong with them.The biggest thing i love about this film is the fighting styles Yuki does and that it wasn't really gory, unless you wanna count Yuki cutting the blade through her enemy's shoulder diagonally. Although you only see the blood, no guts. This film seems to have a gallon of fake blood in this film, in my opinion. but i have to say, this film is easy on the eyes, and the ending requires lots of tissues.

luciofulcilives People sell this film short if they see it as just drama or just action. It has consistent themes: the contrast between those who kill for a just reason (Takashi) vs. those who kill for profit (Yuki). Also, there is the issue of relationships making life worth the struggle. Yuki's development along these lines is the best part of the story, and missing them means missing the point, IMHO. Furthermore, the cinematography is very artistic and thoughtful; the film was obviously carefully shot, packed with beautiful images. If you enjoy Asian sword fantasy films, you'll like The Princess Blade. If you prefer standard Hollywood fare, you may not.