Remakes

I finished Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin: The Last Princess, a remake of The Hidden Fortress (see the Wikipedia article if you're remotely interested).

As remakes go, I've seen worse.

They sure made the character of Yuki-hime a ditz. She was fine until about halfway through the movie and then suddenly became this helpless damsel awfully quick.

I kind of like the nod to Star Wars: A New Hope with the Darth Vader-like samurai villain.

It's kind of a full-circle there (The Hidden Fortress was an inspiration for Star Wars: A New Hope)

I guess I would have understood this better with subtitles (or fluency in Japanese).

I'm not sure I would have liked it more, but I don't regret obtaining it.