A TASTE OF SAMURAI COOKING is a film that falls flat in most regards: awfully paced, poorly designed, and inexplicably uninterested in its main thematic conceit – the food – it ends up looking and feeling like a Japanese renaissance fair, an insipid and vaguely cringeworthy imitation of real history.
Snow On The Blades
With a protagonist-antagonist relationship resolved in such a ham-fisted manner and overreliance on tired samurai tropes of loyalty and stoicism, Snow on the Blades will enthral only those determined to enjoy its technical panache against their better judgment.