Blade of the Immortal

Blade of the Immortal (2017) is a Japanese samurai fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Takashi Miike and starring Takuya Kimura. Based on Hiroaki Samura's long-running manga series, the film runs 140 minutes.

Manji is a swordsman who killed his own sister's husband by mistake. She lost her mind and then her life, and Manji was left wishing he could just die. Instead, a strange old woman infects him with sacred bloodworms — parasites that seal wounds and even reattach severed limbs. Immortality, forced on him. Eighty years later, a teenage girl named Rin shows up asking for a bodyguard; her family was slaughtered by a swordsmanship school with ruthless ambitions. Her face looks exactly like his dead sister's.

Miike, who has directed well over a hundred films, gives this one an unusually patient touch — long, deliberately paced, and violent without feeling reckless. Stream Blade of the Immortal (2017) online on iFILM.