01-12-2023, 08:58 AM
Thanks for gawking this one. I'd passed over it multiple times, thinking it a silly cheesy parody based on the title and the image of the guy dressed in white seeming to soar in a hang glider. My mistake.
And thanks for the warning about the who's who challenge, what with all the different factions, some supporting one shogunate, some the other, some neutral, some spies, some double spies, some triple, and some people saying they're named such-and-such but actually they're so-and-so, and all the shuriken-chicanery and backstabbing.
So I was prepared to venture into the fog in the proper state of mind, paying particular attention to names, to keep them sorted, using my patented mnemonic system (one shogunate I remembered as Toyota), tying red ribbons to the trees so to speak. Which enabled me to keep everything straight for the first 20 seconds.
Warning: Be sure to have subtitles on, or else you're likely to get lost straight out of the gate.
Note: Understanding the spy-games is not essential to enjoying this movie.
And thanks for the warning about the who's who challenge, what with all the different factions, some supporting one shogunate, some the other, some neutral, some spies, some double spies, some triple, and some people saying they're named such-and-such but actually they're so-and-so, and all the shuriken-chicanery and backstabbing.
So I was prepared to venture into the fog in the proper state of mind, paying particular attention to names, to keep them sorted, using my patented mnemonic system (one shogunate I remembered as Toyota), tying red ribbons to the trees so to speak. Which enabled me to keep everything straight for the first 20 seconds.
Warning: Be sure to have subtitles on, or else you're likely to get lost straight out of the gate.
Note: Understanding the spy-games is not essential to enjoying this movie.