1981 · samurai · horror · fantasy
Samurai Reincarnation
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku2h 2m1981
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Our read: Samurai Reincarnation (1981) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive samurai · horror · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme samurai / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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