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Kubi

2023

Takeshi Kitano

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ken Watanabe, Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Kase

5.6

123

Drama. Action. Romance Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

	Author	Review
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"[It] is often wildly funny in Kitano’s straight-faced style, and it’s never less than a lot of fun. Fans of visceral, cynical action movies will lose their heads over it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"[It] seems to want to be a rousing samurai movie while simultaneously undermining the whole genre. Alas, Akira Kurosawa’s 'Yojimbo' still remains one of the few films ever to have pulled that act off successfully"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Busy, brutal queer Samurai epic"	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IndieWire	"What little remains memorable about 'Kubi' is only striking in isolation, born from threads, ideas, and slivers of images (...) Unfortunately, they’ve grown stale; a worthwhile bigger picture never emerges"	NEG
United States	Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"[It] is one peculiar movie, a frantic, blood-drenched, star-studded historical epic that has more beheadings per minute than any feature film I’ve seen in a while"	POS
United States	Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"At its most inspired, 'Kubi' radiates the droll energy of a film made by a director who had genuine fun with their material. The enthusiasm is contagious"	POS
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"Japanese master Takeshi Kitano disappoints with his vicious samurai epic "	NEG
United States	Iana Murray The Playlist	"For a director in his late 70s, Kitano stages this blood-soaked epic with the intoxicating energy of an artist who’s only just getting started"	POS

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