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Summary: Decent stroy..............need more.
Review: I am not really big on anime, let me say first of all. But watching this at a friend's I really did get into the story of it, and though it did leave a lot of unanswered questions, I was told it was a first in a series, but that the series was never finished, at least not that we see on US storeshelves.The animation and art work is excellent.
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: I recently bought this DVD and I'm very disapointed. The movie has no story line and lacks any charature devolopment. It is a nonstop blood bath from the first scene. The ending is terrible and only leaves more questions than answered. Send your money else where.
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Summary: Every element of a good movie
Review: I thought that this was an excellent movie. It had it all:action, drama, violence, weapons, and (erm) nudity. All with a vague supernatural appeal. I watched this movie three times the day I got it, and watch it whenever I'm in the mood for a good Anime with a deep plot. I've recommended this to all my family and friends who like anime. For those of you who have never watched an anime, give this one a shot. It faithfully represents all of the ingredients that are needed for a movie.
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Summary: Poor animation and pointless story
Review: I was very excited after purchasing this, seeing the line "best sword fighting anime since Ninja Scroll", but it wasn't even in the same league as Ninja Scroll. All the movie had was a bunch of old-style still frame animation with a story that went absolutely nowhere. Also the ending made no sense at all, I was expecting it to go on for about 20 more minutes. The only hightlight I can point out of this movie is that it was very violent. I'm a huge fan of samuri/ninja anime, yet I was extremely disappointed with this movie. I only wish I could get my money back. You would be better off spending your money on something else.
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Summary: Poor animation and pointless story
Review: I was very exciting after purchasing this, seeing the line "best sword fighting anime since Ninja Scroll", but it wasn't even in the same league as Ninja Scroll. All the movie had was a bunch of old-style still frame animation with a story that went absolutely nowhere. Also the ending made no sense at all, I was expecting it to go on for about 20 more minutes. The only hightlight I can point out of this movie is that it was very violent. I'm a huge fan of samuri/ninja anime, yet I was extremely disappointed with this movie. I only wish I could get my money back. You would be better off spending your money on something else.
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Summary: Pointless, sexist trash... get Ninja Scroll instead
Review: I'm afraid this review is mostly about how Sword for Truth compares to the classic anime Ninja Scroll, but that makes sense because this little movie is obviously a very cheap rip-off, and because Manga Video is clearly trying to sell it to fans of that older, infinitely better work of animation. The packaging actually says, "The best sword fightig action since Ninja Scroll." But Sword for Truth only succeeds in making us appreciate Ninja Scroll for how good it really was, like how all those lame Jaws rip-off aquatic horror movies made us appreciate Steven Spielberg's classic even more. Ninja Scroll's violence, though extreme, always served some purpose in storytelling or characterization; in Sword for Truth, hundreds of stock ninja images (images, not characters) are decapitated, vivisected, disemboweled, and butchered in dozens of other ways, spraying their vital fluids all over everything, and none of it means anything. The sexual content in Ninja Scroll was fairly unnecessary, but again it made sense within the logic of the storyline; in Sword for Truth, women are empty images (again, images, not characters) who only exist to have their shirts cut open and have sex with the samurai badass hero. It's the kind of movie that a bunch of twelve-year-old boys would get together and make, dripping their raging hormones all over every page of the screenplay. The production values are terrible as well, with static animation and low-budget voice acting. I can't recommend Sword for Truth in any way. Not when there's another movie out there that does most of the same stuff this one does, except with infinitely more taste and artistic skill.
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Summary: waste of money
Review: in case you haven't figured it out...Sword For Truth is absolute [garbage]. It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. You want anime with swordplay? Get Ninja Scroll, or Rorouni Kenshin. You don't have to look far to find better. I wouldn't accept Sword for Truth if I got for free. It's that bad. I suggest that you spend your hard earned money elsewhere.
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Summary: A little better than painful to watch
Review: It really is just an anime about swordfighting and it doesn't even SHOW the swordplay. One moment the two opponents are facing each other, then a still-frame of the opponent yelling, a flash of light, a cool pose by the hero, and blood blood blood. And about half of the fight scenes seem to be random encounters. Just what is the frog-thing with the spear, anyways? If you like this sort of now-he's-living-now-he's-not 'action' than this is a good one. If you're more interested in things like realism and character development (etc etc) then maybe you should watch a different anime.
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Summary: Unfinished gold
Review: Ive never really been interested in anime until i watched this movie. Once i previewed it i had to watch it again and again. Ive probably watched it so many times its been permanently burnt into my subconscious. Some of the scenes dont seem quit right to me though, unfinished if you will. You never find out what happens to Togan the invincible on the roof. And what was with that dude in the final scene with all the naked woman on him? My suggestion is find it, watch it, then watch it again. If you dont find it as interesting as i did, at least you'll get some knew ideas on the different uses of opium.
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Summary: slow slow slow
Review: Just a word of warning of this movie. I bought it on video a while back and much to my dismay realised that it is for lack of a better term "still frame" anime. Meaning lots of camera movement, and exposition on a still frame as opposed to current anime (a la Ninja Scroll... a movie any anime fan should see) which is constantly moving. Plot-wise pretty good, but visually fairly slow.
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