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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 |
 "only for die hard gory fans"first off this anime in no way is related to "ninja scroll" thank god.this film lacks in character and plot.some of my favorite anime are very bloody like ninja scroll,or vampire hunter but this just goes ridiculesly to far with the blood and guts the only reason im givin this film 3 stars is becouse the ninja/samaraui anime's are always my favorites,but definetly not this one.ya might want to rent it or borrow a copy from your ... friend who just bougt it"just to say you saw it" hey if you never wacthed bad anime how can you judge whats good?  "SO glad I only RENTED it"I am really realieved I did not buy this movie (thank goodness for Blockbuster). No one should ever buy this movie. As a matter of fact, anyone who already owns it should burn it. ok enough of that. The problem with this show is that it's just so corny, and when it's not lame, it's violent to the point of making you sick. It starts off with (aw gee, I saw this awhile ago and I'm starting to forget) something with Christians in Japan being assinated for their beliefs, at least that much is historically accurate (terrible isn't it). So anyway the main guy comes up and, does some lame-o miracle thing and holds up a cross. Then a spot light shines on him (yes literally a spot light) and everyone "oooohs and ahhhhhs" and there's angelic music singing "AHHHHHHHHHHH" or something. I mean how cheesy is that. Hmmmmm then there was this part with these two kids later on. They were made as innocent and pathetic looking as possible. They go up to the main guy and are like " ah gee mister, u're our hero." main guy gives a herculean laugh, "but of course, I am the best. All young children should look up to me." "oh goly wash buckets sir, we're so hungry." main charcter once again laughs "well don't worry little suzi and tiny tim (I don't remember their names), I'll make you a something to eat myself." the children respond "WOWY, honest for truly? that's awfully kind of you sir, you're the best." giggle giggle "hahahah I know" Or such was my interpretation of it. It was pretty darn corny. Yes and then of course the big bad evil men come later and tauntingly show the main character the severed heads of those "darling kids" causing him to freak out and become a demon or something. I dunno, it was dumb. I must also add that I love anything anime involving swords, ninja's, samurai, or demons and gory action (my friends think I'm demented). I think they are absolutely awesome. Amazing how something with all these elements could be so bad. Like I said this show was beyond my level of bloodlust. Above and beyond and to the next city. I mean people's FACES were getting sliced off and thrown against a wall. That's just sick.  "YET ANOTHER YAMADA FUTARO ADAPTATION..."Well okay, I agree NINJA SCROLL is a superior product to this, but let's face it, these two products have absolutely nothing in common except that Yagyu Jubei is the central protagonist. Misguidedly titled NINJA RESURRECTION is yet another adaptation of Yamada Futaro's MAKEI TENSHO, filmed umpteenth times already, most recently as REBORN FROM HELL. I personally am tired of this series and I wish Japanese animators could just move on to some other interpretations of the ninja mythology. It was once refreshing to combine the elements of horror/fantasy and jidaigeki action, but the novelty has gone out of it. And why should the Yagyu clan, the OFFICIAL fencing teachers of the shogunate, be promoted to the heroic status all the time? Their ninja activities were basically those of secret police who go off and assassinate those who dare to resist Tokugawa rule. WRAITH OF NINJA has its heart in the right place... Despite pretentious but informative introduction to historical background, this OAV series plays really fast and loose with Japanese history and culture, even within its improbable fantasy context. The filmmakers appear to harbor hilariously strange notions of Christianity, even more so than the most dunderheaded Hollywood action film's stereotypes of Middle Easterners. And yes, as a reviewer noted below, it was completely against the faith of Tokugawa-era Japanese Christians to commit suicide, as Shiro in the first episode proposes. Technically, the animation is totally skewered toward style over substance. Character animation suffers a lot compared to the detailed background cels and fluid movement. DVD production is, however, top-notch quality, with easy-to-read yellow subtitles and excellent stereo sound. A.D. Visions deserves some compliments for this, since I have seen MANY anime DVDs that are basically no better than VHS versions, or in the case of, say, dubbed version of DEVILMAN, stinkingly worse. BTW, Shiro's retainer who betrays him and frames Jubei in the first episode seems to be wearing a coat with Yagyu crest emblazoned on it... did I really see that? He may be revealed in later episodes as a Yagyu agent, thus making Jubei realize that HE was betrayed by his own clan, and turning him into a more sympathetic character. Or so I hope, since he is a total cipher in these two episodes. "It's good if you got everything else"if you've got alot of anime already and you like ninjas enough to want some nice gory ninja action i'de deffinetly reccomend this one to you. if your not into slaughter and ninjas rent it, no matter what its an ok anime. Check out Wrath of the ninja and Ninja scroll(ninja scoll is not a prequel to ninja resurrection) first though.  "They were wrong..."This is the kind of anime you throw in and impress your friends who believe anime too "fruity." Too much gore? Who are you people? It was wonderfully vicious! The hardcore action is some of the most intense I've seen in OAVs. Great entertainment.Only thing that holds this one back is its not finished. It ends at a great sequence where the supernatural antagonists are slaughtering hundreds of innocents in different stylish ways. Here's hoping for episode 3! |
