Blade of the Immortal
Cursed with a life of immortality, a samurai is tasked by a young girl to help avenge the death of her father. Based on the manga series by Hiroaki Samura.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Released
- 2017
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom, South Korea
Details
Release year: 2017
Storyline
Cursed with a life of immortality, a samurai is tasked by a young girl to help avenge the death of her father. Based on the manga series by Hiroaki Samura.
Top credits
Takuya Kimura — Manji
Hana Sugisaki — Rin Asano, Machi, Manji's sister
Sôta Fukushi — Anotsu Kagehisa
Hayato Ichihara — Shira
Did you know
• The film was promoted as being director Takashi Miike's 100th film, but it isn't. Although it was at one time his 100th directing credit on IMDb, that list also includes several TV series, TV episodes, and segments of other films. According to some calculations, Miike has directed over 100 works, including music videos and short films, but (at the time of Blade of the Immortal's release) fewer than 90 were feature films.
• Manji is named after the symbol on his kimono in the original manga: the manji symbol being the Japanese Swazstika symbolising the cycle of life before it was bastardised by the Nazi regime. In the film the symbol is changed so as not to offend. In the original manga, manji has the symbol emblazoned on the earth of his kimono.
• This movie is a British-Japanese-South Korean co-production.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $150,532
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $49,569 (2017-11-05)
User reviews
Beautiful cinematography, but one mess of a script
Remarkable effort. Compressing 30 volumes into film.
An entertainingly violent, action packed film from Miike.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color, Black and White