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Comedy

Kigeki

Japan

2002

11 Min
Color
Japanese
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Kazuto Nakazawa

PROD Kazuto Takida, Eiko Tanaka

CAST Ai Maeda, Hikaru Midorikawa

MUSIC Franz Schubert

ANIM Kazuto Nakazawa

Synopsis

During the Irish War of Independence, a five-year-old girl went out in search of the mysterious Demon’s Castle. She hoped to recruit the services of the infamous Black Swordsman, who was portrayed as a dark, albeit skilled, swordsman. She wanted the swordsman to protect her village from an imminent attack by English soldiers; however, the Black Swordsman would only accept a particular genre of books as payment for his services. Upon receiving the book, the swordsman engulfed himself in reading the novel. While the girl anxiously waited for the Black Swordsman to finish the novel, the English approached the Irish village. As an attack was imminent, the Black Swordsman finished the novel and rushed to intercept the skirmish, where he quickly finished off the English soldiers. The bodies disappeared; the girl knew where to, but the swordsman told her not to not tell anybody about it, or he would kill her. —Wikipedia

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JESCIE

5Aug12

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Jordan K. Ellis

2May11

An outrage of giving this short animated film two and a half stars...it offers more potential and poetry in impression. A child's depiction of something dark or wicked.

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