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| | RPGnet: Review of Legend of the Eight Samurai |
 | | This gem is a costume horror flick from 1983 set during Japan’s feudal period that plays like a moody cross between Krull and Star Wars sans the science fiction elements. |
 | | Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Yuki Meguro, Mari Natsuki, Nana Okada, Masaki Kyomoto, Kenji Ohba, Nagare Hagiwara, Seizo Fukumoto, Mikio Narita, Tadashi Naruse, Minori Terada, Taiji Tonoyama. |
 | | The story underpinning Legend of the Eight Samurai is very much a dark fairy tale akin to what the Grim Brothers might have written, unexpurgated and free of Disneyesque sillifying, had they written a volume of Japanese fairy tails. |
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