movie poster for GOJOE

Flicks ID

13275

Cert

15

Running time

137 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

GOJOE (2000)

SOGO ISHII

Plot

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to a syncretic form of Buddhism, but he lives in the time of the Genji-Heike clan wars and it becomes his fate to clash with a trio of fighters known only as "the demons". Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror. This mix of sword and sorcery and samurai traditions is visibly resplendent and musically resonant, and lots of swords clash and blood squirts, not bad really.