Review of Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion (2013) by Sean G — 17 Jun 2007

Japan's casablanca to me. of all the films on this list, those are the two that I feel if you tell the story to someone who has not seen the film, they will feel it jsut as much. this is just such a great story that there is no way they could have messed it up.

luckily, it was kobayashi, mifune and nakadai, so obviously they were going to pull it off right. this is a heart wrenching tale, again toeing the line of melodrama, but the story is just too good for it to be too sentimental.

they dont need to use any tricks to bring out our emotions, the story and teh actors are that good.