excellent anime movie well animated good intricate plot good music understand may think little long think good length animation good traditional animebr br three charactersbr br the way use tenkai masterly example body double showing locations adds ominous tone movie design tenkai good too way looks monk end scene armour wearingbr br the old man andou earth likable character jiro meets turning point moviebr br sanpei satsuma shinobi infiltrated tenkais clan saves jiros life twice stays background movie though really one heroes moviebr br the plot plot good traditional without unoriginal historical time acted interesting meiji restoration treasure sought tenkai restore shogunate jiro finds uses help antishogunate forces overthrow shogunatebr br the way tenkai tricks jiro interesting sort hamlet feel it also sweet irony fact tenkai gotten jiro become shinobi think able kill endmaybe firearm hand hand combat weaponsbr br the plot death makes mostly dark theres light moments see jiros childhood memories good dark intricate plotbr br the music opening theme example good electric guitar drums occasionally piece use believe taiko drums im surebr br there lot good music like one played traveling iga shinobi believe piece called numatou incredible flute it flute might pan flute probably shakuhachibr br the end theme kamui komoriuta calm delicate vocals beautiful song generalbr br the animationbr br the animation good perfect blood runs characters sometimes appear orange transitions interesting think transitions nice one example nice transition jiro iga shinobi running sunset background music playing transition simple effective nice feeling itbr br my final words think plot animation music characters make one best anime movies ever seen