2004 · samurai · drama · romance
The Hidden Blade
Directed by Yoji Yamada2h 12m2004
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Our read: The Hidden Blade (2004) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded samurai · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured samurai / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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