At the end of sixteenth century,
the end of war gave birth to the cold war of espionage rivalry between two main
clans named Tokugawa and Toyotomi. The ronins became spy agents of various
clans’ spy network. A ronin named Sasuke belongs to neutral clan suddenly caught
between political power espionage between two clans. He’s drawn into the
espionage affair by another spy selling information on both sides to earn
bounty and now he’s in trap followed by murders.
Betrayal, multiple double
crosses, intrigue, unrest of power ans suspense keep baffling the screen till last frame
in Masahiro Shinoda’s this samurai espionage. It’s hard to decide motives of
anybody as a friend or enemy. Breaking traditional samurai plot and narration
Shinoda brought to screen avant garde elements with stylistically cryptic
framing and composition with props of lighting, fog, slow motion and innovative
wide and high angles to watch in samurai cinema genre.
Ratings-7/10
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