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A slow and steady samurai flick a la John Ford that brings emotions and psychology to an epic-scale adventure.
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A tenacious survival tale in which passionate lovers are held apart by outmoded traditions. How they overcome obstacles to happiness is what makes the film so dramatically engaging. July 14, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A tenacious survival tale in which passionate lovers are held apart by outmoded traditions. How they overcome obstacles to happiness is what makes the film so dramatically engaging.
Jeff Shannon
Yamada's enormously enjoyable The Hidden Blade is a movie that deftly balances the obligations of samurai history with love story. July 14, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Yamada's enormously enjoyable The Hidden Blade is a movie that deftly balances the obligations of samurai history with love story.
Wesley Morris
Reminders of feudal Japan are mixed in with a prescient glimpse into the country's future. The samurai will not be part of it, and The Hidden Blade poignantly shows what is lost in the name of progress. July 7, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Reminders of feudal Japan are mixed in with a prescient glimpse into the country's future. The samurai will not be part of it, and The Hidden Blade poignantly shows what is lost in the name of progress.
Ruthe Stein
An affecting portrait of the impact of profound change on people with limited options. July 1, 2006 | Rating: 3/5
An affecting portrait of the impact of profound change on people with limited options.
Jeannette Catsoulis
The Hidden Blade bears more than a passing resemblance in story and form to The Twilight Samurai, but stands on its own as a pleasant, if unremarkable, romance. June 23, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
The Hidden Blade bears more than a passing resemblance in story and form to The Twilight Samurai, but stands on its own as a pleasant, if unremarkable, romance.
V.A. Musetto
Both epic and intimate, this impassioned samurai drama is for anyone who's ever watched a movie and muttered, 'They just don't make 'em like they used to.' June 23, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
Both epic and intimate, this impassioned samurai drama is for anyone who's ever watched a movie and muttered, 'They just don't make 'em like they used to.'
Elizabeth Weitzman
Second installment in Yamada's samurai trilogy. Once again the hero is unlike the super-warriors of the genre, but far more interesting. September 7, 2008 | Full Review…
Second installment in Yamada's samurai trilogy. Once again the hero is unlike the super-warriors of the genre, but far more interesting.
Louis Proyect
A character-driven, martial arts adventure more concerned with motivations than karate moves. July 7, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A character-driven, martial arts adventure more concerned with motivations than karate moves.
Kam Williams
Hidden Blade works, then, as that rare, intellectually stirring historical pageant, but also as a deeply emotional, satisfying samurai movie, one of the crown jewels of the genre. March 1, 2007 | Full Review…
Hidden Blade works, then, as that rare, intellectually stirring historical pageant, but also as a deeply emotional, satisfying samurai movie, one of the crown jewels of the genre.
David Noh
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a totally immersive experience September 28, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
a totally immersive experience
Don Willmott
It's a pretty simple tale, but -- true to his Western influences -- Yamada slows down the action and stretches it out to a prize-winning length. July 13, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a pretty simple tale, but -- true to his Western influences -- Yamada slows down the action and stretches it out to a prize-winning length.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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