Their hosts are an older warrior and a mysterious woman. Two men, near to death from their wounds, arrive at an obscure shrine in the mountains. In what should be an insanely restricted format, the director and actors in this movie create a brilliant performance. The ending is very good, and in fact pretty different than what you might expect. Now, the question is: Even if the samurai defeats this Aragami, will he still be free? And is there no other way out of the Temple other than having a duel with this demon Aragami? Moreover, is Aragami truly invincible? Has he finally met a worthy opponent? I do not want to spoil the film for you, so I will leave this for you to watch. Further, he will not die of old age, and since he is forbidden to kill himself, or allow himself to die at the hands of another-his only way to leave the Temple is to be defeated by a worthy opponent. It is not known how long he has been there, but like others before him, he too wandered into the Temple long ago. This demon, Aragami, cannot leave the Temple until he is defeated. He challenges the samurai to a duel to the death. Moreover, he tells the samurai that his name is Aragami. Eventually, this host tells the samurai that he himself is none other than this very Demon. This Lord of the Temple tells the samurai that a Japanese demon lives in the mountains near the Temple and feeds off the flesh of men. However, this host is about to drop a bombshell on this samurai. Giving him food to enjoy, and much drink. With this introduction out of the way, this Lord of the Temple begins to treat the samurai very good. He claims that he is the great warrior Miyamoto Musashi, who can never be defeated in battle: The ultimate samurai. The surviving samurai's host at the temple is very strange indeed. But there is more to his healing, and his fellow samurai that I do not wish to divulge and spoil for you.įurther, this is not a typical Temple sanctuary that this fleeing samurai has stumbled across. However, upon waking up, the samurai (Takao Osawa) finds that his wounds are not serious, and that his comrade has died. As the two samurai arrive at the Temple, they both collapse to the Temple floor-as their wounds are serious. This fleeing samurai is seriously wounded, and has with him a wounded companion. The films narrative follows two main characters: A wounded samurai (Takao Osawa), who has stumbled into a Temple deep in the mountains, and the caretaker of the Temple (Masaya Kato). There is no wasted dialogue in this film. When I first viewed "Aragami" a few years ago I was really impressed with it, and thought how smart Kitamura was in being able to get this films message across in such a short amount of time that the film allows. One thing I enjoyed about the film too, was that director Ryuhei Kitamura does not throw the film at the viewer in the opening scenes, but allows the dialogue of the films two main characters to build up the suspense, which will eventually culminate into a great action duel towards the end of the film. And if you are like me and enjoy samurai films, you will like the action the film delivers in such a short time span. However, for a short film, it packs in more suspense and great drama than many supernatural films I have seen. The film itself was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, and clocks in at about only 79 minutes. "Aragami" is not only a great film, but one that is very much overlooked. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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