Ninja Scroll

"[It] boasts some of the most stunning production design and background art of any anime production to date (...) For fans of Japanese animation at its most colorful, stylized, and ultraviolent, the film delivers the goods (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"A whipcrack-quick race from one hallucinogenic foe to the next that glances across Japanese politics (...) but never lets reality get in the way of a hearty bout of blood-letting.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"No-nonsense quest movie is chock-full of bloody slice-and-dice action, suitably grotesque villains and life-and-death confrontations (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"[It] stands even to this day as anime's defining work of hyperviolence and the standard-setter for all super-power ninja titles that followed."