everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I'm assuming people gave this a low rating as they didn't know that there is a TV show prior to this movie. If anyone wants to jump into Japanese TV show than this is one the best show's i would recommend. And then watch this movie. The only reason i gave this a 9 is due to the slight changes to the story as to what really happened during that Era in Japan.If you check the TV show, it has a high rating so i assure you, this is worth watching.