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Ninja Resurrection Director: Yasunori Urata Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Color, Animated Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 1999-12-07 Buy from Amazon |
 "Ninja Resurrection - Revenge of Jubei/Hell's Spawn"this movie is just triening to be a copy of ninja scroll. if you want to see a go anime see ninja scroll, akira, wicked citey, ranmo 1 1/2, or records of the lodoss wars. not this crap the ation parts aren't even worth watching.  "darker"This is not exactly a true sequel to Ninja Scroll. Infact this story contains characters from actual Japanese history - Yagyu Jubei & Musashi Miyamoto were apparently real, as was the clamp down on christianity by the shogunate (many a christian was crucified upside down). This film is actualy much darker than Ninja Scroll.. and its really very good. Only problem being that its the beggining of a series which was abandoned and never made (so Im told)  "IT`S NOT A NEW NINJA SCROLL, BUT IT`S GOOD"First thing ; This got NOTHING to do with Ninja Scroll, even if they have used the same name for their character Jubei. And another thing ; This movie DESERVES its "18 yers or older rating", because there are, as in many ninja animes, extreme violence all over the place. The plot is good, the speech is good and the pure "drawing" quality is excellent. One thing that could be a good thing, but isn't, is that this is just the beginning ; and when i say "just the beginning" i MEAN just the beginning. There isn't an ending in this video. Damn. This is just Part 1 and 2 out of God knows how many. But, it's worth buying if you think it's cool with ninjas and samurais and alot of swordplaying (I do). "A disappointment..."Knowing this was in no way related to Ninja Scroll, I went ahead and purchased it based on the good reviews it has gotten from folks who actually liked it. Good for them; they can watch it over and over. I found the story--what there was of a story--in both of the two shorts to be painfully inconsistant. For example, one historical character that is refered to will not commit suicide (and is consequently tortured) due to his Christian beliefs; however, another character (likely the most important character) is about to commit suicide in spite of his Christ-like status when the story (yet again) changes direction. No real character development occurs nor does any plot development for that matter. Now, about that animation... Well, if your idea of really slick animation is panning across stills done in a traditional Chinese (yes, Chinese) painterly style, then this film is for you. However, if you grade your animation by the fluidity of motion, the creativity of scene, and the life-like character of the fantasy created, I recommend you check out the Brothers Quay Collection. Of course, if you want to stick to the traditional ninja story with excellent animation, there is always Ninja Scroll.  "Absolute waste of time"This is (I presume) a comedy. Could have been a good gag on japanime if wouldn't been too harsh and Ninja Scroll haven't been such a neat movie. The story is horrible (as it was supposed to be). The storyline is worthless (well, they made a point there). Characters are hollow and their development is sketchy and jumps as a mad rabbit (whatever). Final fight scene is a total embbarassment although funny. Graphics were taken from Ninja Scroll (mostly). Extra star goes for consistent efforts to embbarass otaku :-). |
