It's a brutal time in Japan. Executioner Ogami Itto has been set up by his rivals and his family has been massacred. He kills many of his would-be assassins and escapes with his toddler son. He roams the countryside with a pushcart, his boy, and a sign stating "Sword for Hire" and "Son for Hire". He is hired for an assassination.
This is plenty good bloody Samurai movie. It's got a good gimmick and I love the son-for-hire bit. I'm simply wondering if he should only work to seek revenge in the first movie. The movie can open with the baby in the cart as sword-for-hire. Then it needs to spend the rest of the movie as an origin story where he slice and dice the whole shogunate. Finally, the ending should be he and his son taking on their first assassination-for-hire. One expects Itto to continue his vengeance until the entire enemy clan is wiped out. Then the Shogun would surely send his army and he needs to kill them all. That should be most of the first movie. As for the violence, this has got the blood splurting craziness that one expects from a Samurai movie. It's brutal fun.
This is plenty good bloody Samurai movie. It's got a good gimmick and I love the son-for-hire bit. I'm simply wondering if he should only work to seek revenge in the first movie. The movie can open with the baby in the cart as sword-for-hire. Then it needs to spend the rest of the movie as an origin story where he slice and dice the whole shogunate. Finally, the ending should be he and his son taking on their first assassination-for-hire. One expects Itto to continue his vengeance until the entire enemy clan is wiped out. Then the Shogun would surely send his army and he needs to kill them all. That should be most of the first movie. As for the violence, this has got the blood splurting craziness that one expects from a Samurai movie. It's brutal fun.