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For the record:
If you're in a video store, and you happen across The Bushido Blade, and you think that a samurai adventure with Toshiro Mifune and James Earl Jones has to be good...
...you're so very, very wrong. A tragic waste of potential. The acting was out of grade school play, or a particularly pretentious roleplaying session. You could see the actors pause to think what their character should say next. Except Mifune, of course, but he seemed to be dubbed by Mojo Jojo. James Earl Jones has little more than a cameo, and displays only slightly more talent than everyone else.
Every Japanese native we meet has some improbable reason for knowing English, including the evil warlord who opposes all things modern and foreign. But not the love interest of the only American who knows some Japanese -- to whom he still speaks in English.
They even managed to work in a blackface routine, just to round things out.
In conclusion, yeech.
If you're in a video store, and you happen across The Bushido Blade, and you think that a samurai adventure with Toshiro Mifune and James Earl Jones has to be good...
...you're so very, very wrong. A tragic waste of potential. The acting was out of grade school play, or a particularly pretentious roleplaying session. You could see the actors pause to think what their character should say next. Except Mifune, of course, but he seemed to be dubbed by Mojo Jojo. James Earl Jones has little more than a cameo, and displays only slightly more talent than everyone else.
Every Japanese native we meet has some improbable reason for knowing English, including the evil warlord who opposes all things modern and foreign. But not the love interest of the only American who knows some Japanese -- to whom he still speaks in English.
They even managed to work in a blackface routine, just to round things out.
In conclusion, yeech.