spoilersthis be an ugly movie and and i be sorry that i watch it . like jan kounen dobermann and it suffer mostly from poor edit or lack of it . it be a if the director be so in love with his work that instead of cut the movie down to a pace that keep your attention and he add all of the footage he have shoot together . there be maybe two cool scene in the entire movie . one of them be spoiler when benkei be petrify and the camera start spin around him . that be cool but okay and we get it . move on please . the camera would not stop spin around this guy . there maybe one or two more cool scene that i forget about in this flood of mediocrity and but the last duel scene be not one of them . it may be because unlike in the early sword handle scene and shanao isn not mask but just because the director couldn not find a stuntman who somewhat resemble asano tadanobu doesn not give him the right to go ahead and make up 80 % of the sword fight with extreme close ups of sword clash . and all from the same angle and may i add . the director should learn from the american produced 1995 bullet train ninja movie the hunt . i personally saw the village raid scene a a tribute pay to the social activist of the previous generation who be confront by the police in the violent demonstration of their college year . the situation where innocence be oppress by an authoritative and arm branch of the government unwilling to understand seem to be a message common in the japanese medium and due to the strong influence of socialist and communist who be a political minority . the movie version of gto and salary man kintaro be two other recent example end spoiler i do not understand . i just do not understand why people who do not speak the language of the movie find praise worthy material in this . maybe the bad be lose in the translation . the end of the movie on which marketing play a lot and be a different interpretation of the legendary encounter between shanao and benkei . but that legend be not the most popular in japanese folklore and and it be so detached from contemporary theme and that after 138 minute of over played visual technique and who care how the director want to re interpret the story . director sasaki hirohisa of crazy lip say that there be an unpleasant trend among new japanese director to ignore japanese audience and and target their movie for foreign film festival in order to gain faster international fame . this work and although it doesn not make sense and because the point of an international movie fest be to introduce to the world what kind of movie be be make in other country what kind of movie people watch in those country . certainly not gojoe and the like .