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Killing

Movie
2018
1h 20m
Japanese
Drama, History
In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin spends time in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. To keep his sword skills sharp, he spars daily with a farmer's son. Meanwhile, the nation is in the midst of major unrest with civil war on the horizon. One day, a group of outlaw ronin enters the village.
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Sosuke Ikematsu
Mokunoshin Tsuzuki
Tatsuya Nakamura
Sezaemon Genda
Ryusei Maeda
Ichisuke
Shinya Tsukamoto
Jirozaemon Sawamura
Kohji Katoh
Masterless Samurai
Directed By: Shinya Tsukamoto
Written By: Shinya Tsukamoto (Screenplay)

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sp1ti says...
5 years ago
I might be biased when it comes to Tsukamoto but despite some things not working - in this quite short and simple story - it still felt like it accomplished what it set out to do. Because visually it isn't always great it is even more so important to tune up the volume I've heard ふふふ・・・ :wink: (https://twitter.com/tsukamoto_shiny/status/1135469606842376193).
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drtfx7 says...
2 years ago
Short but thorough, Killing is an anti-samurai film that questions the 'justified' violence of the samurai. Brilliant use of hand-held photography and amazing performance by the three main characters. Blink and you miss the best of the action.
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CharAznable
8/10  4 years ago
**"I want to be able to kill"**

Tsukamoto's power and potency as a filmmaker is no more evident than it is in 2018's _Killing_. While this refined cinematic work may be a far cry from the so-called "punk" aesthetic that governed his early works, there are obvious stylistic More
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