47 Ronin Collection

Drama

Action

Fantasy

47 Ronin

Mid Atlantic Films

Stuber Pictures

Moving Picture Company

H2F Entertainment

Universal Pictures

Relativity Media

Japan

United States of America

United Kingdom

English

日本語

Keanu Reeves

Hiroyuki Sanada

Ko Shibasaki

Tadanobu Asano

Min Tanaka

Rinko Kikuchi

Jin Akanishi

Masayoshi Haneda

Hiroshi Sogabe

Takato Yonemoto

Shû Nakajima

Hiroshi Yamada

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Tanroh Ishida

Yorick van Wageningen

Ron Bottitta

Natsuki Kunimoto

Togo Igawa

Akira Koieyama

Haruka Abe

Clyde Kusatsu

Junichi Kajioka

Masashi Fujimoto

Neil Fingleton

Rick Genest

Masayuki Deai

Eric McLeod

Hossein Amini

Chris Morgan

Carl Rinsch

Scott Stuber

Pamela Abdy

Priscilla John

John Mathieson

Charlotte Finlay

Penny Rose

Jan Roelfs

Denise Chamian

Ania O'Hare

Nadia Stacey

Tim Nielsen

Gavin Fitch

Karolina Slemer

Zoltán Kiss

David Allday

John Chichester

Leslie Tomkins

David Doran

Graeme Purdy

Zoltán Tóth

Dean Covill

Kevin O'Connell

Stuart Rose

A. Todd Holland

Fay Greene

Elli Griff

Guy Bradley

Jennifer Lewicki

Masako Masuda

Suzanna Smith

László Szirmai

Frank A. Montaño

Robert Cowper

Allan Magled

Jon Taylor

Christian Manz

Gary Jopling

Daniel Laurie

Kevin Cross

Miranda Diamond

Rohan Harris

Codrina Spataru

Dan O'Connell

Justin Denton

Mike Mulholland

Jay Barton

Nicolas Aithadi

Lena Scanlan

Olivia Pickford

Alain Lalanne

Claudia Kossik

Julie Pearce

Rudolf András

Kenneth Karman

Brian C. Hirono

Dean Burtenshaw

Garv Thorp

László Roráriusz

Sarah Swick

Bobby White

Ian Foweraker

Philip Goldsworthy

Tom Partridge

Ildikó Fogt

Tom Woodall

Elise Butt

Stuart M. Ellis

Jamie Kemp

Rachel Chrisp

James Baker

Brian N. Bentley

Erik Classen

Chris Fenton

Gary Freeman

Addison Teague

Géza Kovács

Walter Hamada

David R. Ellis

Ilan Eshkeri

Gary Powell

Fraser Taggart

Stephen McLaughlin

Matthias Gohl

Andrew Brown

Tania Couper

Kazuhiko Ozaki

Ryo Tanaka

Yoshimitsu Tada

Kazuyuki Okayama

Masahito Okamoto

Ken Goto

Nobuyuki Obikane

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I had some expectations on this movie. Samurai’s, fantasy, magic etc… Sounds good to me alright. Well, as it turned out after having watched it I feel that my expectations was not entirely fulfilled. It is a decent enough movie. Certainly enjoyable to watch. But it is, in my opinion, not a great move and I cannot give it more than an average okay rating.

I have not read the original story which the movie is, supposedly, based nor seen any of the other 47 Ronin movies that have been made. Thus I did not really know what the story was except what was the public storyline nor do I know if the movie actually follows the original story in any great detail. The basic story in the movie is a good one though. Classic, simple and perhaps not very original but a good concept for making a good adventure movie.

The movie is entertaining…to an extent. There are plenty of nice scenes, action, special effects that all make the movie worthwhile to watch. The Japanese, samurai, setting is one that is not used very often in major movies except of course for a bunch of fairly ludicrous martial arts movies which cater for a rather limited audience and generally on a very low-budget.

However, I never really felt much attachment to any of the characters. Even the half-breed, which are supposed to be the hero, never seemed to lift above the ordinary. The bad guy could have been any two-bit crook in a TV-show. The witch was a bit better but still rather meh. The Shogun at least provoked a bit of emotions but not in a good way. What an asshole! Not a shred of investigation when Lord Asano was bewitched. Just “go kill yourself”. Then after the 47 Ronins had actually proven his innocence as well as proven themselves to be the most loyal and capable warriors around the dumb fuck wants them killed because they disobeyed his orders which where total nonsense from the start. As a matter of fact, the ending dragged down the movie quite a lot for me.

Still a movie worth watching but it could have been a lot better.

Andres Gomez

I didn't have much expectations for this movie but it was enjoyable enough. Maybe it has some holes that were created to appeal the action movies viewer. I also "borrows" without shame from "Princess Mononoke" and other movies but, as a whole, it is decent enough.

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Keanu Reeves

Hiroyuki Sanada

Ko Shibasaki

Tadanobu Asano

Min Tanaka

Rinko Kikuchi

Jin Akanishi

Masayoshi Haneda

Hiroshi Sogabe

Takato Yonemoto

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