As You Like It (2006 film) British lady at the outpost covers her face modestly with a fan, and styles her hair reminiscently Japanese. When the banished characters travel to the Forest of Arden, both Japanese and western actors portray its inhabitants: Phoebe and William are Japanese, Corin and Audrey are European, while Silvius is a European who wears Japanese clothes. Black British actors play the de Boys brothers, Orlando and Oliver. When Orlando fights not merely a wrestler, it is indeed a sumo wrestler. Branagh invented a prologue in which ninja warriors attack Duke Senior's family as it attends a performance of Kabuki theatre. Branagh's
As You Like It (2006 film) 36% of 14 surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating is 4.7/10. Another aggregator, Metacritic, rated it 75/100 based on 15 reviews. Philip French of "The Observer" called it less successful than Branagh's previous Shakespeare adaptations. Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" rated it 3/5 stars and wrote that it "deserves a look". Anthony Quinn of "The Independent" rated it 1/5 stars and wrote, "[T]he only way you could make the spiralling absurdities of As You Like It work would be to transform it into a fast-paced comedy". Many American critics called the film a "comeback" for Branagh's