Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

1969 [JAPANESE]

Action / Adventure / Drama

2
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 76 76

Plot summary

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Director

Hirokazu Ichimura Photo
Hirokazu Ichimura

Top cast

Jun Hamamura Photo
Jun Hamamura as Tessai
Yôichi Numata Photo
Yôichi Numata
Gorô Ibuki Photo
Gorô Ibuki as Gennosuke
Gajirô Satô Photo
Gajirô Satô as Hanji the Orphan Boy
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807.42 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.46 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by masercot

Pretty much what you'd expect

The lady kills an awful lot of people. The movie concentrates on the killing much more than Oichi's first venture which also addressed her feelings for the mother who had abandoned her.But, as a samurai sword flick, it wasn't too bad. There is a very adolescent girl (I think eighty percent legs) and a boy who looks like he walked off of the set of Dragonballz.There's not much that I can say about this except that it is one big fight pretty much from beginning to end...
Reviewed by jrd_73 7 / 10

Second Best Film in the Series

The Crimson Bat films are an attempt to make a female version of Zatoichi, a blind swordswoman. The films are generally not as successful as the Zatoichi films, partially because Yoko Matsuyama is not the actor that Shintaro Katsu is. Matsuyama is okay, but she doesn't really impress as either a blind woman nor as a swordfighter. Watch Out, Crimson Bat! Is the third entry in the series, and after the second entry (Trapped, The Crimson Bat), the next best entry of the four films.In this one, Oichi is entrusted to deliver a scroll to a master weapons maker. The old man has retired to practice his art in the countryside. Too bad the local lord is a weapons nut who wants to use the old man's knowledge for personal gain. Oichi meets up with two orphans (a girl and a boy) whose parents have been killed in the lord's experiments with dynamite. Oichi also meets up with not one, not two, but three separate ronin, crossing swords with each before befriending two of the three.The plot is a bit crowded, but it makes for a quickly paced film. The action scenes are fine, but certainly not astounding. I liked the film well enough, but I am an admirer of samurai cinema. Non-fans should probably drop my star rating one or two stars.
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