Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

MartinHafer Unlike some of the other reviews, this is for the subtitled version of KIBAKICHI--not the dubbed version. In practically every case, I prefer subtitled though I really don't know how well the dubbing was.This is a very weird film for Western audiences and one that probably won't appeal to the average person. The story itself seems strongly inspired by Japanese manga or anime, as so many of the story elements seem identical or similar to those in popular Japanese stories and cartoons (most notably, the very popular INUYASHA). Like INUYASHA, many of the characters are animal spirits in human form and some of them love the taste of human flesh. However, the story is a bit weirder and is full of odd anachronisms. Though the story appears to be set sometime before Japan modernized in the Meiji period (by the dress and feudalism), some of the characters sport modern leather clothes, use Gatling guns and throw very modern-looking grenades!! Trying to make sense of this as well as some of the odd action in the film is probably more trouble than it's worth--it's best to not question and just watch.The title character, Kibakichi, is one of these animals in human form, though for almost the entire movie he is in human form. However, towards the very bloody ending, he reveals himself to be a werewolf. Other characters, for example, are spiders in human form and love the taste of human flesh. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of prejudice towards these creatures and the film appears to make you feel sorry for them and see them as basically good--but they WERE eating people!! This makes it very hard to really care about the wicked humans or the nice but dietary challenged animals in human form.As I said before, this is a movie best viewed with your brain turned off and your eyes wide open to take in all the sword play and action. I thought it was generally pretty well done despite all the silly and cheesy elements, but I do have a higher than normal tolerance for the weird. For lovers of Japanese cinema, fantasy and anime, this is probably an excellent film to watch. For others, it will probably confuse you or make you laugh.By the way, while you see a lot or arms and head hacked off and they are often accompanied by geyser-like sprays of blood, I found these scenes not the least bit scary or gross. They seemed more like the Black Knight scene from MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. However, with this violence and a brief glimpse of a woman's breasts, parents might want to think twice about letting Junior see this one.

Keiji-sama The summary of Kibakichi: Bakko-yokaiden itself is enough to get me interested in this movie. I've seen plenty of movies, especially those made within the last year, generally normal-to-high budget movies, yet none of them have caught my interest like this one. The reasons why this movie is so horribly interesting, despite its obviously low budget are fairly obvious: First of all, you've got the fact that it's a monster movie where the humans--for the most part, Kikio is a different story entirely--are the villains; then you've got a werewolf-reminiscent samurai for a main character; among all this, which alone would get me watching the movie, no doubt, you've got demon geisha seducing and eating humans, and demons using gambling to draw in their source of food.The only thing that I suggest about this movie is that, above all else, you avoid the dubbing and watch it in its original format. You'll get a MUCH better movie if you do that.

TheOnlyGoodHumanIsADeadHuman Where to end? This movie is kinda woeful, you realise after about 10 mins that they had very little money indeed, what they had they seem to have saved by skimping on actors. The Plot? That doesn't matter in the least. The effects? Very poor. The editing? Not too bad actually and the look of the film is half decent. But none of that's important, none of it, what is important is the dubbed version.Its simply beautiful. Lip sinked by a blind man, scripted by an inbred and performed, by the sound of it, by a motley band of monkeys, castratoes and men who have had all trace of emotion removed from them.High pitched comedy voices and cackling abound. Oh the cackling, must be the only film in history to have its own cackling department. Any old dialogue that sort of fits is used, followed by half a second of their mouths still moving. That's when they don't simply fill the gap with cackling. You may have noted there's a lot of cackling in this movie (to be truthful some of that cackling might be mu ha hah ing or even gaffawing, only the experts from the cackling department would be able to tell us).I suppose the plot should be given a mention. Werewolf samurai, fights monsters, some of those monsters are human. With the usual mix of clans missions etc, it does have spider whores, which can only be a good thing. It moves briskly enough and has enough oddness to entertain.Perfect for a booze and pizza night.

gothor A Samurai is invited to stay in a gambling house run by monsters in disguise. Despite eating the occasional welcher, the monsters really aren't so bad. But wait a minute: Traveling cowboy... finds a home... things are gonna go wrong, right? Oh yeah. In a big way.The middle of this movie is pretty slow paced, but all that is made up for in the film's ending and beginning, which action fans have got to see to believe. The werewolf costumes are great and the swordplay is spot on.Don't believe the haters. This movie is great fun. And the dubbing isn't all that bad either (except for the one princess girl, who, I kid you not, *might* have been a man.) P.S. Kibakichi has one of the greatest theme songs I've ever heard. It's catchy, heroic and just plain awesome. If I were a samurai-ronin, you can bet I'd rip off Kibakichi's themesong for my own!