Izo (2004)
Directed by Takashi Miike
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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In Izo (2004), last seen here in the San Francisco International Film Festival (Miike is a worldwide festival favorite), a captured Tokugawa-era samurai is crucified and, while hanging on the cross, somehow magically transports himself to contemporary Tokyo, where he takes up his sword to settle old scores with the descendants of the people he was fighting against in the first place.
Of course, you could argue that Miike more than anyone has earned the right to do chambara (the swashbuckler genre) straight – he is, after all, also the man who made Izo (2004), the film that turned the samurai genre inside out for good.