Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1 (Crazy Samurai Musashi) 2020

Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1

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Movie Info

When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world's first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.

Genre:

action, adventure, foreign
Original Language:

English
Director:

Yûji Shimomura
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 12, 2021
Runtime:

1h 32m

Cast & Crew

Tak Sakaguchi
Musashi Miyamoto

Yûji Shimomura
Director

Critic Reviews for Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1 (Crazy Samurai Musashi)

All Critics (21) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (14)

Featuring a hugely impressive physical performance from action star Tak Sakaguchi and an ambitious 77-minute set piece, Crazy Samurai Musashi sadly fails to live up to the hype.

November 29, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Nicola Austin
JumpCut Online
Crazy Samurai Musashi is respectable yet flawed attempt at trying to do something different with the action genre; but its ambitions exceed its grasp.

September 23, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Harris Dang
Their Own League
Crazy Samurai Musashi teams Yûji Shimomura back up with lead actor Tak Sakaguchi and shows how these two can work miracles together. Add to this team up the writing of Sion Sono and the film that comes out the other end becomes a must see...

September 9, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Emilie Black
Cinema Crazed
What Sakaguchi convincingly shows is that what truly stirs the imagination of the spectator is not shining special effects, but true skill and the physicality of the actor.

September 7, 2020 | Full Review…

Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
Psychocinematography
It's like watching a video game in which the player has memorized a few key, effective moves and just keeps hitting those buttons in random sequences.

September 2, 2020 | Full Review…

Sarah Gopaul
Digital Journal
So lacking in charisma, smarts, and style that the central stunt barely feels like filmmaking at all.

September 2, 2020 | Full Review…

Isaac Feldberg
Arts Fuse
The effect of the 77-minute, unbroken action sequence is more often numbing rather than exhilarating.

September 2, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kyle Anderson
Nerdist
It's ambitious premise fights against the narrative resulting in a surprisingly dull endeavor.

August 26, 2020 | Rating: 5.5/10 | Full Review…

Adam Patterson
Film Pulse
It's tedious, repetitive, boring almost immediately, and its only purpose as a venal spectacle demeans the participants as it eventually demeans the viewer.

August 25, 2020 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
An impressive achievement that's ambition is bigger than its execution.

August 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Doug Jamieson
The Jam Report
Cinema this bold is rare indeed and deserves to be celebrated.

August 24, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
If you've ever wanted to see a movie primarily shot from a 3rd-person perspective (e.g. Assassin's Creed), here is your film. The style works but gets repetitive fast.

August 23, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

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