Samurai Spy

Original title: Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke

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The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.

Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
Writers
- Yoshiyuki Fukuda
- Koji Nakada
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7.0/10

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Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
Writers
- Yoshiyuki Fukuda
- Koji Nakada
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #312.

Quotes
Sarutobi Sasuke: Carrying on with life is not always a pleasant thing.

Connections
Referenced in The Resistance (2011)

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5/10

Silly

Muddled and extremely silly samurai film marred by artsy flourishes, goofy ninja outfits, martial-arts fantasy nonsense, and a stupid ending.

On the plus side, Shinoda has a good eye for composition, the production values are quite good, and it's got a meaty role for Seiji Miyaguchi (Kyuzo from SEVEN SAMURAI).

The most potentially interesting thing about the film is its treatment of the persecution of Christians in Tokugawa Japan. Unfortunately, it treats this aspect with the same superficiality that it treats the conflict between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Toyotomi clan (and the film starts with a basic historical error: the Toyotomi clan did not lose at Sekigahara; they didn't even fight there, although the battle did result in the end of Toyotomi hegemony over Japan).