I thought it was really good, it does remind you of marital arts like Bruce Lee's film "Enter the Dragon" although this is way gorier then it. The large amount of goriness that this movie has, should be in the "Guinness Book of Records". I was so irritated in the scene where the dog has been poisoned by the bad guys and he was gonna die. Luckily enough, the boy and the ninja guy found some dude who is a professional at medicine that managed to save the dog. Seriously as a animal lover, it made me feel really tense lol!The fighting scenes were good but the amount of blood does make you sick. The anime creator team really did a good job in making it realistic I suppose lol! Although I'm not a big big fan of this, it is good so I gave this an 8/10 rating!

This is Masahiro Ando's first and only animated feature . The movie is great with good sword fights with tons of blood. The animation is stunning and voice & acting are very good. The music is outstanding especially in the beginning fight of tittles . The colors, music, story, effects and sword fights are top class. This animation made me look for more action animations. This movie has deep characterization. Exceptional music, astounding cinematography. This is the greatest Samurai animation that i ever seen. I felt ending fight could have been better. A must-watch movie for anime and action movie lovers . this is time-less classic .

OK, sorry, but one of the main characters here is Doge, so I just had to make the title like that. (If you don't know what Doge is, Google "Doge meme".) The movie itself is quite good, by the way. It has a lot of nice action scenes, and a lot - and I mean A LOT - of blood. It is not like "Berserk", of course, but it almost comes pretty close. The animation is excellent and the voice acting is very good. The music is somewhat weird, but also very nice.The writing is serviceable. If it were as good as everything else, I would give the movie a rating of ten out of ten. It is, still, pretty nice, but at certain points the viewer gets drowned in exposition and info-dumping. It is not that annoying, of course, but it could be done better.Anyway, all in all, the movie is very good. It could be perfect, though. Still, I recommend it.

Sword of the stranger is a visually very well made anime movie. The animation is great and a lot of effort has been put into detail and beautiful backgrounds, which really adds to the overall atmosphere. The soundtrack of the movie is great, and is in my opinion probably the thing that stands out most in this movie. The voice acting is outstanding, and the music is beautifully written and recorded with a full orchestra. My only complaint about the music (and this is really being picky), is that the main theme is repeated just a bit too many times. It's a beautiful piece, but after hearing it so many times it starts to feel a bit monotonous towards the end of the movie.The story is quite simple and easy to follow, but without ever seeming slow paced or commonplace. It was captivating all the way to the end, revealing just enough of the back story and the characters' backgrounds to give you an idea about the motivation behind their actions. It's also very refreshing to see an anime that (mostly) manages to avoid the bad, evil guys that are just bad and evil for no other apparent reason than that the story needs a bad and evil character. The antagonists in this movie have a reason for doing what they do, which makes the whole thing so much more interesting to watch.Overall, this is one of the best anime movies I've seen in a long time. It's well made, and although the story is fairly predictable, it's still a very good one. Anime or not, if you like good movies, this one is definitely worth a watch.