Kamui
Kamui gaiden
Japan
2009
120 Min
Color
Japanese
Synopsis
A crowd pleasing, sweeping epic brilliantly directed by one of Japan’s finest auteurs, Kamui is the adventurous story of a fugitive ninja played by superstar Kenichi Matsuyama. —tiff.net
Director
Yoichi Sai
Yoichi Sai (born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His mother is Japanese and his father is Zainichi Korean（Korean Japanese）.
Sai’s 2004 film Chi to hone won four Japanese Academy Awards, including two for Sai himself, for Best Director and Best Screenplay. He had previously received two nominations in the same categories for Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru. In 1999 he shot Buta no mukui (The Pig’s Retribution), a film set in the lavish natural scenery of Okinawa, inspired by the 1996 Akutagawa Prize-winning eponymous novel by Eiki Matayoshi. The film won the Don Quixote prize at Locarno International Film Festival in 1999.
Sai won the award for Best Screenplay at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.
As an actor, he appeared in Nagisa Oshima’s 1999 film Taboo. He is the current president of the Directors Guild of Japan. —Wikipedia
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Sancar Seckiner
7Jun11
Pointless hiting, cutting and endless chuping up. Bad vision of Japanase cinema.
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2010: Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin. Also: "Film Ist.," DVDs
By David Hudson on December 2, 2009
Even as critics cobble together their year-end and decade-end lists, 2010 is already beginning to take shape. The Sundance Film Festival
Vancouver 09: KAMUI Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]The first thing you should know going into Kamui is that it is immensely silly. If the trailers, stills, or reviews have led you to believe otherwise
TIFF 09: KAMUI Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
A ninja epic without a story, Yoichi Sai’s adaptation of the 40 year old manga source material limps onto screen with hollow characters, bad CGI and way, way too much run-time. For enthusiasts of mythology
TIFF 09: KAMUI Review
By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
A ninja epic without a story, Yoichi Sai’s adaptation of the 40 year old manga source material limps onto screen with hollow characters, bad CGI and way, way too much run-time. For enthusiasts of mythology
Vancouver 09: KAMUI Review
By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]The first thing you should know going into Kamui is that it is immensely silly. If the trailers, stills, or reviews have led you to believe otherwise
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By Alan on September 20, 2009
A movie that tries to hard to be the epic film it’s not. It ends up being a mess of “cool” movie ideas. The characters save the small fisherman family are all unlikeable and 2 dimensional stereotypes… read review
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