Leaving the film, my wife asked me, "Rin looked badass, but wasn’t she supposed to BE badass too?" Without spoiling the second half of the manga series for anyone, the film seems to stop around Hiroaki Samura's "Shortcut" story arc (Dark Horse Manga Volume 16), which basically sees several doctors experimenting on a captured, weakened Manji and his bloodworms to try and find a "shortcut to immortality." By chaining up and incapacitating Manji, Samura is able to move the focus of his tale to Rin finding her confidence and her ability to use her intelligence to achieve victory over brute strength. The movie has a perfect cast, and it delivers plenty of the gore and violence that Samura seemed to relish early in his career, but unlike the manga series, the movie never takes its eye off Manji and the sacrifices he makes to help Rin with her quest. The Blade manga series takes a turn about midway through and more obviously becomes a tale of Rin turning into a confident leader and a strong warrior in her own right-and on her own timeframe and her own terms-after much self-doubt and questioning. This is all Manji's movie, but I feel the manga series is ultimately about Rin finding herself and evolving into a confident leader who will revive her family’s sword school one day, filling her father's shoes. The film focuses on the sensationalism of Manji, his possible immortality, and the other colorful warriors and weapons in this reimagined Edo-era world. Overall, though, the film focuses on roughly the first half of the original manga series before going its own way and cleaving itself a new ending that doesn't quite match up with the manga.
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(The epic manga series is collected into 30 Japanese volumes, 31 Dark Horse Manga volumes, and now a series of Blade of the Immortal Omnibus Volumes, which would be a lot to cover in just one film.) Screenwriter Tetsuya Oishi did an excellent job of pulling a few elements from the mind-blowing final volumes of the manga series into the movie. But if you want to enjoy more of the story after the film, be sure to check out the manga! Director Takashi Miike didn't finish reading the manga series, as he admitted in a recent interview, but his team did an excellent job of compressing approximately the first half of Samura's epic tale into a two-and-a-half-hour spectacle. And then there’s the novelty value of having an unkillable hero who can still take a licking during combat, with Kimura beautifully selling the indefatigable Manji’s agony as he’s repeatedly sliced, stabbed and skewered.If you're interested in seeing Takashi Miike's Blade of the Immortal film adaptation, but you haven't read the original manga series by Hiroaki Samura that it's based on, you'll be fine. Now Manji teams up with Rin (also played by Sugisaki), an orphaned girl who reminds him of his dead sister, and sets off on a mission of revenge.Īs Manji hacks and slashes his way through a series of encounters with the men of evil warlord Anotsu (Fukushi), what could quickly become dull and repetitive is enlivened considerably, not just by Miike’s consistently inventive blocking and staging, but by neat tweaks to convention.Ī story that could otherwise be unbearably grim is leavened by moments of pitch-black, offbeat humour, notably in one sequence where Manji finds himself facing off against a fellow worm-ridden immortal. Upon his dying breath, Manji is given immortality by a mysterious old lady, and off we go, flitting into colour and fast-forwarding 50 years.
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It doesn’t end well for him, but it ends less well for them, in the first of several beautifully staged extended battles which culminate with Miike pulling the camera back to show just how many dead litter the ground.
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Quickly, though, Machi is dispatched, and a vengeful Manji finds himself facing off against a hundred sword-swinging warriors. This is not a film that skimps on the claret.Īn extended prologue, shot in black-and- white, introduces us to Manji (Kimura), a disgraced and tormented samurai, protecting his young sister Machi (Sugisaki) from ruffians.