Lone Samurai Review: It's a Swordsman Versus a Band of Cannibals With Uneven Results

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A traditional haiku is anchored around the invocation of nature's most ubiquitous objects and occurrences. Thunder, rain, rocks, waterfalls. In the short poems, the complexity of these images, typically taken for granted, are plumbed for their depth to meditate on the behavior of humanity. Much of the dialogue in Josh C. Waller's Lone Samurai, heard in Riku's voiceover (Shogen), are poetic trinkets, while the film at large takes the form of the simplistic image-making that defines the Japanese literary tradition. Despair, grief, resilience, violence, glory, peace. All in a day's work for a master swordsman.


Source: https://screenrant.com/lone-samurai-review/