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A very, very bad movie
This has to be one of the all-time worst movies ever made. I mean, come on! Lou Diamond Philips and Jennifer Tilly as Inuits? The whole movie is a shameless distortion of Inuit life and culture, the type of portrayal one would have expected from a movie made in the 1930s. Worst of all, though, is the fact that Toshiro Mifune somehow felt compelled to become involved with this movie. Why, man? Why? You were such a grea actor and certainly didn't need something like this to besmirch your great reputation.

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Definetaly one of the best
Wow, this tape absolutely blew me away! This is by far my most favorite tape out of this whole series. I love the scene with the fireflies! It brings a tear to my eye every time I watch it. A very touching and shocking tape. It might be easier to understand it if you've seen Samurai X Trust and Betrayal, since that tells the story of Kenshin when he was the Hitokiri Battousai, that way you would know more about his past and some of the characters that show up in these episodes.

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I don't quite agree to this movie as a great one
Yes, the toughness of shooting this serious movie is praiseful, but what I'd like to ask is "what is the purpos of shooting this movie". The young role played by Lou Diamond is a warrior but also a heartless brute and savage, sometimes smart and sometimes stupid, beating up his woman with every right he thinks entitled. This young man didn't evolve himself to become a deeper and greater warrior with righteousness or higher calling in his mind. The whole movie is just like a documentary trying to show you how tough the life could be in the so-called Far North. What I've seen are bunch animal-like human beings, injuns or white men, they are basically a bunch of crooks, lowlives, trying very hard to rob, cheat one another to make the survival bit easier or more profitable. The role Lou Diamond played didn't and had not develop into a more respectful, standing tall man, just a get-by survivor. Of course, any production that had the heart to shoot in the cold wildness is a serious movie, but a deeper passion to give to the viewers to pay their respect first is working the script with better purpose and thoughtfulness, subtlely educate the viewers with more powerful senses is what that lacked of in this movie.