Can a cut-paper, stop-motion feature film capably and faithfully represent the tortured psychodrama and indulgent gore of samurai cinema? Or will it end up being, for lack of a better term, a poor cut-and-paste job?
For the most part, from its first bloody corpse to its body-ridden showdown, the mounting carnage of Eric Power’s Path of Blood—available on demand for stream or download exclusively through Vimeo—is genuinely shocking. Its sub-narrative, of banished samurai in search of restored glory at the end of a blade, still resonates even after its antihero spectacularly takes down the big baddie.
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