Unforgiven

2013 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller

25
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2984 3K

western samurai remake period drama shogun 19th century

Plot summary

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Director

Sang-il Lee Photo
Sang-il Lee

Top cast

Yukiyoshi Ozawa Photo
Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Sanosuke Hotta
Akira Emoto Photo
Akira Emoto as Kingo Baba
Ken Watanabe Photo
Ken Watanabe as Jubee kamata
Eiko Koike Photo
Eiko Koike as Okaji
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.22 GB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds ...
2.5 GB
1920*800
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Marshallp123 8 / 10

Hey clown town that said it's a shot for shot remake. You're wrong.

This movie is an homage to the spaghetti westerns that made Clint Eastwood. They took eastern samurai stories and made them westerns. This does the opposite. It takes an original western script and turns it into an eastern samurai story. Is it perfect? No but it's beautiful. It's worth your time. Watanabe is superb and the cinematography rivals that of the original. In an attempt to match the slow development of the original it may fall short in what ends up being a slow burn. But if you love Clint. Or you love Ken. Or you love westerns. Or you love (easterns) samurai stories. This will sit well with you.
Reviewed by MOscarbradley 7 / 10

A very good copy of a much better original

What goes around comes around. Just as a fair number of westerns were remakes of classic Japanese Samurai movies so Sang-il Lee's "Unforgiven" is a fairly literal remake of Clint Eastwood's Oscar winner of the same name. Here we may be dealing with samurai but that doesn't disguise the fact that these guys may as well be cowboys and this could be the American West. It's a reasonably exciting and handsome picture, gorgeously shot in widescreen by Norimichi Kasamatsu, but it is also so close to the original it feels almost negligible. Ken Watanabe plays the Eastwood role but it's something of a one-note performance; he lacks Clint's gravitas. This could have been a classic but as it is it's nothing more than a very good copy.
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