2007 · action · fantasy · horror
Dororo
Directed by Akihiko Shiota2h 19m2007
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
Our read: Dororo (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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“You want dark Japanese fantasy of a cursed warrior reclaiming body parts from demons.”
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