Sengoku Basara Samurai Kings - Season 1 -Blu-ray/DVD Combo-

Product Description Based on the brutal world created by the masters at Capcom. Sengoku Basara drops you directly into the burning battlefields of feudal Japan, where rival warlords hack and slash their way to total domination. Each conqueror wields a special attack that boosts their powers of devastation, and each commands a horde of relentless warriors. But when a supreme evil – the Demon Lord – threatens the land, these fierce generals launch a co-op campaign of annihilation and build an army of armies to obliterate their common foe. As the front line grows crowded with gun-toting, mechanized samurai and mystical ninja, some will say that war is hell – Sengoku Basara proves it can also be kick ass. Amazon.com Based on the Capcom video game series, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings (2009) is an over-the-top samurai adventure set during the wars that led to the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa Shoguns. The battles among the provincial lords take a back seat to the rivalry between Sanada Yukimura ("The Tiger Cub of Kai") and Date Masamune ("The One-Eyed Dragon"). They're forced to ally against Oda Nobunaga, the brutal but charismatic general who conquered most of Japan-- depicted as a monster who slurps saké from a human skull. The large cast includes fantastically costumed feudal lords, loyal warriors, and scantily clad female ninjas. The period battles feature such unexplained anachronisms as a Gundam-like giant robot, machine guns that fire endless rounds of ammunition in the era of the arquebus, and the reins on Masamune's horse, which resemble the handlebars of a lowrider's Harley. Director Itsuro Kawasaki and screenwriter Yasuyuki Muto use some real names and places in their fantasy, but killing off Ieyasu Tokugawa as a boy poses something of a problem: It's like shooting George Washington at the start of a Revolutionary War epic. The battles and duels recall Dragon Ball, with the heroes radiating auras of colored energy and punching each other through walls. But the endless combat gives the viewer little sense of the progress of the greater war. The story seems to end with Episode 12, only to veer off in a new direction in Episode 13--which presumably continues in Sengoku Basara Two (2010). Samurai Kings may make sense to players of the original game, but the uninitiated will find themselves hopelessly lost in its alternate reality. (Rated TV