https://nowtoronto.com/contests-and-promotions/blade-of-the-immortal/#.Wgu-W5yG23w.twitterBlade of the Immortal
Legendary action and samurai director Takashi Miike’s 100th feature film Blade of The Immortal, based on Hiroaki Samura’s ground-breaking and award-winning manga, opens this week in Toronto at Cineplex ScotiaBank Theatre on November 17. The film features spectacular fight scenes with a whole array of imaginative weapons, and a climactic battle involving some 300 people that took more than two weeks to film. It is currently certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and is the best reviewed film from Miike since his epic samurai flick 13 Assassins in 2011.
“Takuya Kimura and Manji are like each other,” says Miike. “Here I see something meant to be. They are born in entirely different times and spaces, but they breathe the same air, and as a result I think they’re linked. When you meet Takuya Kimura and Manji, you feel their strength. Without that strength, Takuya Kimura would never have become Japan’s greatest superstar, and Manji could never have lived as he does in a dark world that no one knows about.”
Hiroaki Samura, author of the manga series, remarks that “I can do nothing but bow to Takuya Kimura, who personified Manji better than anyone else could have; to Hana Sugisaki as Rin, beneath whose inner strength and firm centering is a spirit of revenge; and to Sota Fukushi, whose powerful finely detailed performance as Anotsu goes gradually from imposing to tragic.” Samura notes that “as the writer of the original story, I can say that I couldn’t have hoped for more from this movie. Come and enjoy it on the big screen.”