A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.
Rowena Koenig
- Pheon
- (as Rowena Zirbel)
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- TriviaThere are two different versions of the opening scroll at the beginning of the film. In the original theatrical version, the scroll reads: "Planet Aradius. The Arid people, believers of the Wei, have been enslaved and oppressed by humans for over a millennium. In recent years, the planet's declining population has become plagued by infertility. The ruthless viceroy - The Griffin - has begun an unyielding campaign to find and kill the Arid rebel leader - Moss - who speaks of rebellion." But in other versions of the film in other countries, the opening scroll is different and it reads: "Humankind came to the planet Aradius to trade for the mineral "Aradium" - a mineral ore that allows massive metal objects to float. When the Aradium was all but depleted, most of the humans abandoned Aradius - leaving behind refuse, disease and infertility. The Arid people, distinguished by veins on the palm of their hands, found themselves under the oppressive rule of a human viceroy known as "The Griffin." Their only hope: an Arid leader named "Moss" who calls for a rebellion that could finally free Aradius from the tyrant."
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Attractive artwork sucks you in, then stabs your eyes!
Thankfully bought at my local Poundland, I had been tempted by the nice artwork of Hirokin for a couple of years. But a gut feeling was saying wait.
Wait until you find it at a pound, then think twice again.
But I got it. I was expecting Star Wars meets Six String Samurai, but instead got, well, I actually don't know what that was!
Slow, boring and with painfully uninteresting fight scenes, Hirokin plays like a slow burning Japanese samurai epic, well it feels like it in running time, but has the flair of a film students documentary on watching paint dry.
Nope. Just nope. There was no need!
Wait until you find it at a pound, then think twice again.
But I got it. I was expecting Star Wars meets Six String Samurai, but instead got, well, I actually don't know what that was!
Slow, boring and with painfully uninteresting fight scenes, Hirokin plays like a slow burning Japanese samurai epic, well it feels like it in running time, but has the flair of a film students documentary on watching paint dry.
Nope. Just nope. There was no need!
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- Movie-Misfit
- Jul 14, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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