2007 · action · samurai · historical
Sword of the Stranger
Directed by Masahiro Ando1h 43m2007
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
Our read: Sword of the Stranger (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · samurai · historical entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / samurai, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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