“不死身って、死ぬほどめんどくせぇ。”
100人斬りの異名を持つ万次は、わなによって妹を失い、謎の老人に永遠の命を与えられる。死ぬことのできない無限の体となった今、斬られた傷は自然に治るが、剣術の腕は落ちていた。ある日、孤独な万次の前にあだ討ちを頼みたいという少女・浅野凛が現れる。彼女の願いを聞き入れた万次は、凛と共に剣客集団・逸刀流の首領である天津影久の命を狙う。
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
興行収入: $150,532 (0億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: 三池崇史
音楽: 遠藤浩二
撮影監督: 北信康
制作会社: TV Asahi / Recorded Picture Company / GYAO / Kodansha / Ken-On / OLM / Filosophia / Sega Sammy Entertainment / Warner Bros. Japan / CJ Entertainment / Raku Film / HanWay Films
When his young sister is brutally slaughtered, fearsome warrior “Manji” (Takuya Kimura) exacts his revenge on the killer and on his army of soldiers. What’s left of him at the end, though, isn’t going to survive for long - until a mysterious lady arrives and pours bloodworms into his wounds. Next thing his limbs are reattached and he is gifted with an immortality. In the next fifty years he acquires quite a reputation and it’s that that the young “Rin” (Hana Sugisaki) wants to tap into after her own father is brutally murdered and she wants her own pound of flesh. Initially, he isn’t really interested in getting involved but before long he is embroiled in a series of acrobatic combat scenarios that test not just the recuperative powers of his worms, but also bring into question his own attitude to his immortality as he encounters others “blessed” or ought that to be “cursed” by the same gift. What I did like about this is the crafted sword-fighting. Though doubtless perfectly choreographed for the camera, they come across as more spontaneous, bloody and less repetitious - especially impressive as there a great many of them as this obviously far more substantial story is rather tightly condensed into a two hours that does leave the principal characterisations a bit undersold at times. On that front, there are probably just too many characters for us to really embrace, and even when we do get a more solid villain in “Anotsu” (Sôta Fukushi) things all seem a bit rushed. Honestly, perhaps this could have been a trilogy, with more time spent developing the stories more thoroughly and taking more time to keep us from becoming solely subsumed in all the gore. Still, I enjoyed it and it does raise quite a few philosophical questions about humanity, humility and revenge.
