Samurai Spy (Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke)

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"January 17th Directed by: Masahiro Shinoda On the surface, another impenetrable samurai protagonist who is always just, honorable and chaste. Now it's not that any of that is untrue, but there are also many unexpectedly poetic moments underneath it all. Yet at the end I felt like a child, giddy to watch the good guy take on the mysterious entity built up through the whole movie. I can't think of another samurai movie to genuinely make me feel like I was watching Saturday morning cartoons or so"

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"Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. This isn't what you call a traditional samurai movie and it was the director'"