Samurai Marathon is a film that works so well placed right up against history that it is hard to tell the truth from the fiction, and that is how the filmmakers and audience like it. There is only so much drama one can get out of a marathon. Ever wonder why there are not a lot of running movies? No one has any time to just watch people running, no matter how beautiful the landscape is.

This all-Japanese Jidaigeki samurai film is notable for a number of reasons - it is directed by an English filmmaker, Bernard Rose (who made 1994's Immortal Beloved with Gary Oldman & 1997's Anna Karenina with Bond girl Sophie Marceau), has a classical music score by legendary composer Phillip Glass (Truman Show, Kundun, The Illusionist) & Hollywood actor Danny Huston opening & bookending the film.

Takeru Satoh Nana Komatsu Mirai Moriyama Shota Sometani Munetaka Aoki Naoto Takenaka Etsushi Toyokawa Hiroki Hasegawa Danny Huston Nao Taishi Nakagawa Mugi Kadowaki Joey Iwanaga Ryu Kohata Yuta Koseki Motoki Fukami Shinsuke Kato Ruka Wakabayashi Mariko Tsutsui Junko Abe Akira Koieyama Carlos Arturo Pinzon Christian Storms Takashi Nishina

Samurai Marathon desires to be placed among the ranks of impressive historical Japanese films that have come before it. The filmmakers were inspired by history and took a small moment of Japanese history and wrapped a samurai movie around it.

The story is brutal! The crazy thirty-six mile chase which is the foundation of the story is embellished with treachery, betrayal, outrageous cheating and numerous decapitations, trust me you will love it!

The Candyman director Bernard Rose turns to Japanese kinema in The Last Samurai of Fire? Alright! No idea of what the hell I really watched but yeah, Samurai Marathon happened with accountant spies (not Ben Affleck), Revolver Samurai, hilarious running and bear droppings. What an experience; not for painful killjoys.

Samurai Marathon is an entertaining break from the streaming norm we are used to getting now. In a world where new content is about to really start slowing down, it might be about time to jump onto the subtitle bandwagon and see what else might be out there instead of scouring the dregs of Netflix.

Candyman Regisseur Bernard Rose inzeniert hier ein wahrlich mchtiges Brett.
Das sieht alles so derbe geil aus.
Wie und warum es ihn nach Japan verschlagen hat, wei ich nicht, aber die haben ihm richtig Geld in die Hand gedrckt. Die reinste Augenweide.
Der Score ist zum niederknien, von keinem geringeren als Philip Glass (Mishima) und die Practical Effects zhlen zum besten was ich seit Jahren gesehen hat. Das Blut und die Enthauptungen sehen echt heftig aus. Die Action ist ein Traum. Der Film ist spannend wie sonst was. Inwieweit das Marathon Rennen der Samurai den Tatsachen entspricht, wei ich nicht. Ist mir auch erstmal egal. Im Film erscheint alles vllig nachvollziebar.

Taking the race as a jumping-off point, Director Bernard Rose of Candyman fame sculps a story that has as many peaks and valleys as the route he put his actors through. The twists and turns come often and make you wonder how many were needed to achieve a coherent story. Some minor character tropes and weird tonal shifts aside, Samurai Marathon is still worthwhile.

Yu Haifeng Keiji Kameyama Takaya Kano Masaaki Kimura Kazuo Nakanishi Zhou Yanqin Tatsuro Hatanaka Nobuo Miyazaki Hiroyuki Yamada Koichi Watanabe Keiichi Yoshizaki Marie-Gabrielle Stewart Tatsumi Yoda Minoru Toizumi

The characters all service the story quite well, even though we have all seen these arcs before time and time again. From the princess who wants to be free and explore the world to the bad guy who wants to marry for power, it has all been seen before. Samurai Marathon does complete these arcs in meaningful ways, and brings satisfying conclusions to the characters, but because some of these characters have been seen so many times before it creates a situation where the viewer might be reluctant to get aboard for their journey.

It's really funny how social media advertising works? Since I recently purchased the new PS5 game: Rise of the Rōnin I have been served so many adds for this particular genre. Funny how that works right?
This movie came across my feed and I had to watch it, seemed natural because of activities mentioned moments ago...