[frogus]

It was very interesting, and showed how movies dont have to be like other movies....

There was not very much plot, no love interest, no three-quarters-of-the-way-through crisis resolution (other than the crisis of a hundred crazy samurai yakuza), and very little characterisation...

Also it is partly colour, partly black & white and partly cartoon...AND all the main characters are complete legend stereotypes.

Even the heroine is not a realistic character at all so far - she appears to have no emotions except vengefulness and honour...i.e she is a samurai cliche

The two dimensional mythology style characters are a bit disconcerting (challenging?) in a modern western setting, rather than dressed in leftism samurai garb in ancient Japan...

It was very good, if you can chuck out preconceptions of what you think a film ought to be, and just try to enjoy it...it has superbly witty (minimal) dialogue which is not contrived or arch, sometimes funny, sometimes stupidly funny, sometimes sharp...