Sword of the Stranger is a Japanese animated feature film directed by Masahiro Andō and produced by BONES studios. The film follows a swordsman with no name and a golden-haired assassin as circumstances draw them towards a mysterious young boy.



That's the central plot but here's what you really want to know:

BONES ☑
Music by the man who's worked on Eureka 7 and Heroic Age ☑
Samurais during the sengoku era ☑
Crazy battle hungry Gaijin working for the Chinese Imperial Army ☑
Gore and violence ☑
Awesome fight scenes ☑













Check out my tl;dr review for more info.

This post has been edited by Shinn87: Apr 19 2008, 11:08 AM

HOHO... interesting. But somehow i am reminded of something. Or a few things.

Samurai 7~
Ninja Resurrection~
Samurai Champloo~

Yeah, the movie pretty much borrow elements from every samurai themed anime you've seen although they've thrown in a few surprises of their own.

Trailer Here since the youtube embed doesn't seem to work wwww

This post has been edited by Shinn87: Apr 19 2008, 10:58 AM

So does it has a reverse bladed sword wielded by a non killing gay samurai?

With all that blood... nope?

Despite having sworn off using the sword, our ronin dude still manages to kill people using only the hilt, so yeah.

That's him being calm. Wait till you see he gets pissed.

fixed

put the youtube ID code


instead of this (wrong way)


This post has been edited by Fyonne: Apr 19 2008, 11:10 AM

Thanks Fyonne, fixed things on my end too. I think the trailer should be convincing enough.

this is anime or what?

@Zen

The fact I posted it here of all places should be pretty obvious enough? But yes, this is an anime. movie. about. samurais.

BAAAASAHKAAAAAA!!! *RUAAARRGHHHHHH*

That kind of pissed mode?

No he goes

"Onichan!!!!!!!!!!" when he pissed.

Ninja Scrolls had more boobs + gore.

Ninja Resurrection had tentacle raep, man-crawling-out-of-girl, youkai rape and god knows what else.

Somehow remind me of a samurai drama on NHK, where a samurai try to pull out his katana but accidentally step on a sake bottle and fell on the ground. The other samurais stabbed him to death....

It had Christians summoning the devil too. Too bad the show was never completed.

This is one of the best anime chambara movie so far.

10/10 from me. Absolutely beautiful anime with great ending.

very interesting movie.. i love the OST.... suprisingly, enemy only had girls as army...

Oh wow, such good review huh?
You have this anime is it?

What do you think?

Hahahha... I want ne... I want...

wow judging by the list of good reviews, am so gonna watch it this weekend

Hei Linkin, thanks! LOL

Definitely worth watching it.

Hora. I've watched this movie thanks to my friend Silencers who gave me the movie (he gives me such nice things to watch), and my summary of this movie is as such:
OMFG. I CAME.

Now, in more detail:

This movie came into my radar because of the fact that it was being made by Studio Bones (one of the four Japanese animation studios that I highly respect, the other three being Production I.G, Studio 4C and Madhouse). But I had absolutely no idea that it was gonna be this freakin' awesome. The music astounds you with its force, the action is absolutely intense and bloody, and it will show you just how bloody a swordfight can get. It's a straight-forward, no-nonsense action film. And a fairly realistic one at that. No henshin or super-powered scenes here: the fights are bone-crunchingly brutal. The opening grabs you right in and never lets you go till the end. I've been watching the final fight sequence at least twice a day for the past 4 days.



I'm not spoiling the story (and it's a fairly good one), because frankly this movie is more towards the action. The story does its job by providing an above-average way to link the action scenes together. But man oh man, what choreography! What detail! Studio Bones has gone above and beyond to deliver one of 2008's most visceral masterpieces in the samurai genre. Trust me, you DO NOT want to miss this.



The animation is unlike anything I've seen in recent memory. No speed lines, no recycled scenes. NONE WHATSOEVER. The animation is amazingly fluid and complete; the movements of the warriors are complete and there is a seamless unbroken flow from one sequence of movement to the next. As a fan of animation in general, this realization filled me with orgasmic delight. This is what you get when a group of people decide to put their blood, sweat and tears into their work in order to come out with the highest possible standard in quality, that also raises the bar for other animators and production studios in this field.



This is what Sword of the Stranger is. It's f**king amazing, and it would be a grave mistake for you to miss it.

If there's a limited edition or collector's edition boxset out with good English subtitles out, I'm getting it.

This post has been edited by ganaeshd: Apr 26 2008, 09:45 PM

nvm found it lol

This post has been edited by choyster: Apr 26 2008, 11:25 PM

Very nicely animated if i must say. Kind of what i expected since they're the one's who are also animatin Soul Eater.

shit , another great samurai movie ....
the fighting screen , somehow feel better than those stupid cg fighting movie , 2d FTW!

story is a bit dull

without realize, i dl raw version. whuaaa!

nice story. hardcore fighting scenes. i watch it at crunchyroll

just saw it. wtf nanashi is like kenshin.. red-ish hair, check. blood soaked past, check. sworn off using his sword, check.. lol :\

but still.. an amazing anime movie

storyline so so only la. just that fighting scene is damn good!

damn good anime really recommend to get it on dvd

Storyline = Good [The story progress very well from start till end]
Fighting Scene = Ichiban [All the fighting scene is awesome especially when nanashi kill all the ming warrior]
Graphics = Ichiban [Above expectation, compare to Kenshin graphics]
Character = Nice and well done [Nanashi, Nanashi's Boss Kotaro, Kotaro's dog, & not to forget Ming's warrior Rarou]

Btw, any other anime on par or higher with this type of anime?

Try Samurai Champloo or Samurai 7.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-328822/Sw...lete-Movie.html


No need buy. Watch for free. Buwahaha..
Isit legal to post this link here?
=(

No. So don't post links.

Some series are not worth downloading, so seeing them online is totally okay. Case in point: Naruto.

Others are so amazing that actually spending money on the DVD and owning them is totally justifiable. Case in point: Sword of the Stranger.

Watching this movie, online? EPIC FAIL. You, sir, fail as an anime fan.

This post has been edited by ganaeshd: Apr 30 2008, 05:22 PM

Hush... he/she just joined.

just watched this by shinsen. epic. and 5.1, what could i ask for more? actually there is. better chinese seiryuus

minus that and the just average/decent storyline, this shit is perfect for samurai/melee-fight anime.

(btw guys try to watch this 5.1, the fights having the sword slashes coming around you is f***ing amazing lol, i almost felt i was in there getting slashed up XD)

dats y i said storyline so so only.

but i like fighting scenes cos of the 5.1.

hehe, in my watchin list alridi

very good action sequence, so so story... great score
I'd highly recommend it

whhooooo~

"where's the sword?? where's the sword??"

"剑呢? 剑呢?"

Great show. Average story, but beautiful, epic soundtrack and amazing action. Crazy animation quality.