LoneWolf6

I saw Carandiru after seeing Takeshi Kitanos "Zatoichi" at the Toronto Film

Festival. Let me tell you, my day was full of carnage but it's OK because both movies were very good. The director was there as well as an actor or two if I remember correctly, they spoke about the film with true passion which added to the essence of the final product. It opend my eyes to an event that I never knew of. Highness was a great charater, Graca was my favorite, he should learn

english and get into the indie scene in North America. Good film 7\10.

Seeing as I am a fan of both Beat Takeshi films and the old school Zatoichi films my anticipation for this film was killing me. Well, I saw it yesterday in Toronto at the Elgin Theatre and by the end of the film my expectations were surpassed.

Those who know Zatoichi will be happy to finally see Ichi, the travelling, gambling, masseur anti-hero back in action and bloodier then ever with some gore as well. Those who are happy to see Kitano back will be happy to know that he has reedeemed himself since Brother which seemed lazy and rushed for a Kitano film. Zatoichi is an exellent film nicely paced combining old school samurai film elements with Kitano's own sense of pop-culture, strong characters and of course great bloody swordplay and lots of it. A great film by an even greater director.

My cousin in Italy gave me this movie and a few issues of Dylan Dog when I left there 4 years ago. I just converted it the other day when I realized I still had it. If you've ever seen the comics-Evereret was born to play Dylan Dog.For me the film carried the same tone as Evil Dead 2, which one came first, I forgot to check. What made it a little better for me were the dreamy sequences of the graveyard during the day with those very cool looking trees and how he treid to act like a normal citizen. Very funny espeacially in Italian, some heavy zombie carnage and great camera work give this genre a very good film.