Makai Tensho: Samurai Reincarnation (1981)

4.5 stars samurai fantasy film

Shiro, the leader of the christian uprising came back to life as a devil and is in a mission to recruite lost souls and bring them back to life as devils so he can get his revenge against the tokogawa shogunate. Jubie Yagyu is the only one who can destroy the devil and put the recruited lost souls to rest in peace.

The scenery of the story is outstanding including the fight between the ghost musashi and jubie that is located at an ocean view with vast huge rocks on the background. The action scenes r great as what u can always expect to chibas' samurai movies. There are also great cast involved in the film including the young sanada (twilight samurai) and the great Tomisaburo Wakayama (lone wolf and cub) as Jubies ghost father.

The performace by the cast r sincere that make this samurai film a great drama with action. Be sure to watch this movie with subtitles and avoid the english dub because it will only ruin the feeling of the movie.

The picture is great brought to you by Tokyo Shock and the sound is outstanding. I highly recommend this film for people who likes a good storyline with great action. I also recommend the legend of eight samurai for another great samurai fantasy film by Sonny Chiba. February 9, 2007

Supernatural Samurai

This movie has the great Sonny Chiba reprising his role from "Shogun's Samurai" but the tone of this movie is totally different. The focus is on horror and the supernatural. It takes awhile for the movie to warm up and a western viewer to figure out the plot, but after the first 30 minutes things really move. The ending in the burning building is AWESOME!

Not as good as "Shogun's Samurai" but better than "Legend of the Eight Saumrai". And watch it in Japanese with subtitles, for God's sake! January 3, 2007

Bad dubbing but the movie is even worse!

OMG this thing was horrible. If you have seen Shogun's Samurai and are expecting something on the level of that, you are in for a big surprise. Legend of the Eight Samurai is better than this and that was horible!

The movie starts off like it is going to be high class with all of these weird things going on. But the movie just drags on for about an hour and a half and manages to put in a couple of fight scenes that were almost good. Even Sanada blew in this movie and that NEVER happens.

But not to worry, this movie does come to an end.

I got this as part of the sonny chiba 5 pack. If it was in original language and widescreened, there is still no way I would have given this a 3. August 26, 2006

Not worth buying!

I had a hard time making it through the whole movie. I actually fast forwarded lot of the scenes, because it just dragged on. This is a good film to watch if your cable goes out and it is pouring rain outside. You may want to just rent this film first before buying it. October 23, 2005

Subtitles

This dvd does have english subtitles throughout all the spoken language but you have to select it from the dvd setup title menu rather than change it using the dvd remote during the film July 19, 2005

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