Thanks to its focus on internal struggle and domestically confined drama, Love and Honor is the wilting lily of Yamada’s trilogy, albeit an exceptionally satisfying romance.
Love and Honor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2008 Limited
Synopsis:
Shinnojo Mimura(Takuya Kimura) as a lower-ranked samurai who is employed by his clan as a poison taster to the load of the clan has lived thrifty but happy life with his beautiful wife Kayo(Rei...
Shinnojo Mimura(Takuya Kimura) as a lower-ranked samurai who is employed by his clan as a poison taster to the load of the clan has lived thrifty but happy life with his beautiful wife Kayo(Rei Dan) and their old servant Tokuhei (Takashi Sasano). One day; however, end comes to his happy life because of becoming blind which is caused by the shellfish that brings on food poisoning, which is accidentally put into the lunch for the load of the clan.
Shinnojo cannot stand spending the rest of his life in darkness, so he tries to kill himself, but Kayo and Tokuhei manage to save his life, and he gradually becomes used to living in darkness. Yet, one day Shinnojo finds out the fact that Kayo has relationship with the head Clerk Toya Shimada (Mitsugoro Bando): in return for his recommendation for Shinnojo's position in the castle, he has demanded her body, and Shinnojo decides to divorce her.
Shinnojo eventually figures out the truth, Shimada merely took his pleasure with Kayo. Not one word did he say about how Shinnojo was to be treated to the Lord. Shinnojo cannot stand it a moment longer. He challenges Shimada to a duel. --© Official Site
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Starring: Takuya Kimura, Rei Dan, Takashi Sasano
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Rei Dan, Takashi Sasano
Director: Yoji Yamada
Director: Yoji Yamada
Screenwriter: Yoji Yamada, Emiko Hiramatsu, Ichiro Yamamoto
Producer: Ichiro Yamamoto
Composer: Isao Tomita
Studio: The Bigger Picture
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Reviews for Love and Honor
A very satisfying tale that emphasizes one of the genre's key themes: The deepest wound a samurai may suffer does not come from any blade.
Love and Honor is a welcome affirmation of Yamada’s determination to maintain his historic workload, even while in his 70s.
Gracefully directed, deliberately paced and intentionally free of the action you'd expect from a samurai film, all of which makes its climactic confrontation that much more effective.
Might work as a short story but as a full-length makes for a long, slow round of watch-checking.
dyskoleyetai na kratisei ypo elegho toys melodramatismoys tis, kai sto deytero miso tis se krataei men me sfigmena ta heria ap' tin agonia, katorthoma, omos, poy den eimai sigoyros oti einai kai toso dyskolo, otan s' ehei paei os ekei me ta sagonia tentom
Final installment in samurai trilogy that features a blind swordsman in an utterly distinct fashion from the Zatoichi movies--a far more vulnerable and far more believable hero.
It's an exquisitely crafted melodrama, moving with stately grace toward an understated yet forceful quest for revenge.
An impeccably made classic Japanese period picture in which a nobility of spirit is tested amid the most beautiful of settings, revealing the harshness and hypocrisy of a feudal society of the utmost formality and rigidity.
The film is void of action until a final duel that is staged with a believability that makes the supernatural skill displayed in most blind swordsman films seem preposterous.
the movie has only one sword fight, and it consists of only three or four swings of the blade, but don't let that dissuade you. You won't be bored.
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