Princess Blade Raves

The Princess Blade opens in select theaters tomorrow (click onto the link at the beginning of this sentence for more details). As critics check out the film in preparation for its release massive amounts of enthusiastic reviews continue to pour into ADV HQ.

Pasadena Weekly says The Princess Blade ?offers more than a standard female action-hero? and star Yumiko Shaku ?makes an impressive debut.?

New York magazine called the film ""...a strangely poetic visually stark adventure held together by Shaku's intense performance and some thrilling well-edited fight sequences.""

Finally The Hollywood Reporter says ?Original and thrilling martial-arts choreography a lean hard-driving story and solemn atmosphere make The Princess Blade -- a futuristic tale -- stand way above the pack.?

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2003 (Archive on Sunday, September 07, 2003)