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Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 06/16/2009 Run time: 102 minutes
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By R. Taveras (Reading, PA USA)
Sword of a stranger is clearly one of the best anime movies out there. It visually stunning and exciting it keeps you on the edge of you seat.
By N. Norman
If I was still 14 I probably would have liked it. Maybe since I'm 23 I'm getting too old for anime.
By L. White
Sword of the Stranger is an action movie. The movie takes itself seriously. And despite this being the directors first movie, the attention to detail with the environment prevents it from feeling like a static world. The very limited amount of humor present helps to keep the mood right for the film, but could turn some away. The level of gore is high at times, but not so bad you can't look.
Like most action films, there is a story. And like most action films it isn't the most memorible story. However, the animation quality and the music are great. The Japanese voice actors do an excellent job. Some fan favorites from live-action were casted for major roles. And the young boy that did the voice for the youngest character is spot on. Despite the story not grabbing me like other movies recently, there is a point and there is some character development. The treatment of the Chinese forces present in the film is not in the best light (as expected with Japan). But, interestingly the characteristics that the Japanese characters show are not any better.
Even though I have high praise for this movie, it simply doesn't have much more to offer on blu-ray than with DVD. The picture quality is not vastly improved. It doesn't look bad, it just doesn't look much better than on DVD. That is the only reason I have given this 4/5 stars and not 5/5.
By Rath Dragonhunter (Las Animas, CO. USA)
There's not much I can add to the already great reviews. I will say that there is no sexual content. There is a brief nude scene but not much is shown. I'll also add that young children should not watch this only because there is a lot of blood, limbs cut off and one scene of torcher. But really this is an absolutly spectacular movie. It's well worth the money, good story line and for a change, the story does end quite decently, it doesn't just let you hang there wondering what the hell happened or will happen. Hope this very short review was helpful. For another sectacular anime series that's well done and worth seeing check out Samurai 7.Samurai 7: Box Set (Viridian Collection)
By E. A. Hurst (From Beyond)
"Sword of the stranger" has a very real feel to it unlike many other Anime or rather 'toons' out there - for starters the characters are likable and very believable whereas anime such as Ninja Scroll centered on the mythological demons, and creatures genre. The animation is raw (meaning the background) the character development is excellent, be that as it may I found the Designs a little off i.e. one of the samurai's arms were to long, and "No-Name" barely had any muscle tone you figure if one is a samurai and carries a sword everywhere he's going to look like he's at least halfway healthy) but i will let that slide because that's the style "Unique" would be the word for this movie, it almost has a Disney-anime-lone wolf and cub hybrid feel to it) and here's to hoping they make a sequel to this, or something like this in the future - I really did not know what to make of this movie at first but after watching for awhile i really started to get into the characters. Intense action (gory at the beginning)believable drama, awesome backdrops and the fight at the end has to be seen to be believed, not saying it is the best sword fight scene in all anime but it is up there. Easily the best Anime out this year no contest. Buy IT.
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