2009 · animation · action · adventure
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Directed by Fuminori Kizaki1h 41m2009
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.
Our read: Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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