Kamui
Director: Yoichi Sai
Writer: Sampei Shirato, Kankurô Kudô & Yoichi Sai
2009
Kamui is a fugitive ninja on the run from all other ninja who constantly pursue him because they are trained to capture any ninja who abandon the group. Constantly on the run, he eventually winds up in a small fishing village and befriends the people living there (and to explain it any further would ruin this very dense plot). Kamui is a very good film, with spectacular ninja action and fight sequences embroiled in a dramatic story about love, freedom, trust and honour and the ninja code. Becuase of everything going on in the film, Kamui is a little drawn out and longer than necessary. Nonetheless, it is a highly entertaining film that mixes well the action aspect of the story with the human aspect making for one great ninja epic.
