Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Section 23
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630340264X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,437 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ugh, July 23, 2004

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Kalika (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samurai Showdown: The Motion Picture (DVD)

To put it simply, this is a bad, bad movie, an example of what happens when you try to make a video game into a movie. The animation is badly done, the voice acting sub-par --the voices don't even match the characters very well -- and the frequent action sequences are retro to the extreme and just don't look good.... I'm sorry to everyone who liked this film, but I love all anime, and I couldn't get halfway through this one. Avoid this movie at all costs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Samurai Showdown is a Let Down!, July 28, 2001

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"ninjitsu" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samurai Showdown [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a pretty big anime fan and I am not quick to judge, but this is definetly not on my top ten list. I rented it having high hopes, but I ended up wishing that I hadn't stayed up to watch it. Fans of the videogame have probably already seen it, so if your just a person looking for a good anime to watch, find something else. It looked like it might be good at first, but the plot never went that far, and everything had a kinda vague feeling to it. It had 2 or 3 good fight scenes, and a little bit of humor, but that's about it. I would not recommend buying it, but it might be worth renting.

If you want a good videogame anime, try the Dark Stalkers series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Video-game-based anime at its worst., June 20, 2001

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"solarnight" (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samurai Showdown [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Simply put, Samurai Shodown is a below average action anime with average dubbing and average art. It is fighting game anime that takes the story from the game and does pretty much nothing with it. Buuuut, that doesn't mean it doesn't have its good parts. In fact, there is a pretty good dose of drama at the scene that occurs after the part when Haohmaru defeats Earthquake, and it's done very well in the dub. Speaking of dubbing, Haohmaru's voice is great (thank goodness, he's the main character), but supporting roles, uh, suck. Galford shows about as much emotion as Amakusa (which is null, by the way), Hanzo's voice is too deep for its own good, and Gen-An is just plain funny. The action scenes in this movie are flat out average.

The one thing that almost redeemed the entire movie was the ultra-cool ending theme (not the English credits. Stick around until the Japanese credits roll). Not only does it show additional characters and awesome fight scenes that weren't in the movie (weird), but the nice ending theme, sung in Japanese, is subtitled, with pronunciations! Anyway, if you don't mind a generic plot and want a bit of action, give it a rent.