Survive, Life, Lie. Samurai Is A Human. Always A Human.
A survival-jidaigeki series. Take a note, this is only a beginning of the story. This series is set during the final days of Samurai in a cholera epidemic. Centered on a man who is a former of Samurai and called 'Hitokiri (manslayer)'. He needs money to treat his family while cholera outbreak. A battle between his family's life or his inner trauma that never left.
An ode of surviving. Life for money. And money for life. Brutal, bloody, and bleak. Once they join, there's no way out. No matter of teaming up, nor even stand alone, blood gonna flood. The harsh truth of political intrigue that hiding behind the brutality of surviving that so called 'kodoku game'.
I'm beyond loving the action choregraphies in here. So tight, packed, yet well manage. The body control of each actors in here was utterly magnificent. The katanas dancing at its finest. Dare to say most of the actor have done well so it looks like they didn't use stunt double. Looks promising and realistic, by the way.
Not only by action performance, but the mimicking of every actor was undoubtful. I love their micro expression, especially Okada Junichi as the heroine. His attitude, his anger, his tremble hand, oh he just portraying his character as the best as he could. I knew it. Also the other actors too, even the cameos, bruh all of them are so good. Anyway, they did Takayuki Yamada's cameo screentime unbelievable, I scream for his scene, honestly.
The cinematography was peak cinema, peak beautiful. Like it should, Fujii-kantoku. The angle placement were masterpiece, oh I can't forget those bird's eye shots, the knee level shot. Precisely pretty. Also the lighting, those contrast, the intensity of light, just fit the best. Majestic. Oh unforgettable camera works, those shaky, zoom in/out, it's like we're dragged into those brutal combat with them.
The scoring, were bops. Also I love the way they serving 'silence moment' at the right scene, just give me goosebumps. Especially before the climax combat, oh define peak cinema.
All in all, I highly recommending this series, if you love hunger games, battle royale, combine with shogun, then you might love this. Let's watch it and wait the second part coming, guys! What a best experience I have while watching this! Don't miss this master-craft.
An ode of surviving. Life for money. And money for life. Brutal, bloody, and bleak. Once they join, there's no way out. No matter of teaming up, nor even stand alone, blood gonna flood. The harsh truth of political intrigue that hiding behind the brutality of surviving that so called 'kodoku game'.
I'm beyond loving the action choregraphies in here. So tight, packed, yet well manage. The body control of each actors in here was utterly magnificent. The katanas dancing at its finest. Dare to say most of the actor have done well so it looks like they didn't use stunt double. Looks promising and realistic, by the way.
Not only by action performance, but the mimicking of every actor was undoubtful. I love their micro expression, especially Okada Junichi as the heroine. His attitude, his anger, his tremble hand, oh he just portraying his character as the best as he could. I knew it. Also the other actors too, even the cameos, bruh all of them are so good. Anyway, they did Takayuki Yamada's cameo screentime unbelievable, I scream for his scene, honestly.
The cinematography was peak cinema, peak beautiful. Like it should, Fujii-kantoku. The angle placement were masterpiece, oh I can't forget those bird's eye shots, the knee level shot. Precisely pretty. Also the lighting, those contrast, the intensity of light, just fit the best. Majestic. Oh unforgettable camera works, those shaky, zoom in/out, it's like we're dragged into those brutal combat with them.
The scoring, were bops. Also I love the way they serving 'silence moment' at the right scene, just give me goosebumps. Especially before the climax combat, oh define peak cinema.
All in all, I highly recommending this series, if you love hunger games, battle royale, combine with shogun, then you might love this. Let's watch it and wait the second part coming, guys! What a best experience I have while watching this! Don't miss this master-craft.
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