2013 · drama · action · fantasy
47 Ronin
Directed by Carl Rinsch1h 59m2013
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Our read: 47 Ronin (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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