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Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1

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When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world's first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.
Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1

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Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1 has a certain brutal effectiveness, but its heavily action-dependent approach makes it difficult to care about what's happening onscreen.

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Steve Rose Guardian Most viewers will tire out long before this Crazy Samurai does. Rated: 2/5 Jun 30, 2021 Full Review Carson Timar Filmotomy For those who love samurai action films and dont need a ton of character or story to captivate them, this is probably going to be butter on their bread. Feb 12, 2022 Full Review David G. Hughes electric ghost Crazy Samurai is, up until now, the pinnacle of this undesirable and artless trend in single-take action filmmaking. It displays very little authorial shaping of reality. Yet its sui generis excess wore me down and then won me over. Jun 27, 2021 Full Review James Mudge easternKicks.com Mainly for hardcore action fans or filmmakers interested in staging fight scenes and in experimenting with the form, and for them the film is definitely worth catching Rated: 3/5 Mar 5, 2021 Full Review John Serba Decider Crazy Samurai is not only boring, but empty too. Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Sean Gilman The Chinese Cinema An experimental action film more admirable for its tenacity and the stamina of its star, Tak Sakaguchi, than its choreographic pyrotechnics. Mar 3, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Paul P So much fun. People watch other people play video games and this is that with as few cuts as possible. Love it. Makes a great drinking game lol Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/02/24 Full Review Audience Member The only reason this is getting half a star is for the ending, that’s literally it. The entire film was just a bunch of idiots spamming the same 3 moves over and over again and Musashi kills them. The sad part is, this film has a place in cinema history now for being the first to do something this ambitious. If you are a Cinephile or just have insane tolerance don’t watch this garbage. Almost no story to speak of also. He also just keeps finding water and food laying around, like everywhere? And when he is tired no one attacks to take advantage of him during a moment of weakness??? THESE ARE NNOT WARRIORS. This movie is unironically a disgrace to my eyeballs and anyone else who has the misfortune of watching this. .5/5 stars, if I could give it a -1 I would. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/18/24 Full Review Devin C Great movie I randomly watched it on tubi and man they literally fight the entire movie. Great samurai techniques no wasted movement in his attacks Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Alan R The idea that this was filmed in a single take is the only thing that is impressive about this movie. Obviously low buget, with a cast of around 25?, that keep coming back to life after they are killed. It reminded be of a low budget zombie move. The fight scenes were laughable, with no apparent attempt to make them look realistic. I did watch it until the end( although I did fast forward through a large part of the movie) to see if it would get better.... It didn't. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/28/23 Full Review Dan D While this movie was terrible, it is the closest I've seen to a live-action video game. It had rest points, similar NPCs in every fight scene that die senselessly, occasional boss fights, weapon upgrades and aimless wandering by the protagonist. Bad movie but a pretty good "video game". Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/28/23 Full Review Doyle W You must stay until the end.. do not take the weak path and skip ahead suffer you must for a grand payday you shall receive Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world's first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.
Director
Yûji Shimomura
Genre
Action, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 12, 2021
Runtime
1h 32m