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Though McTeigue directed, the Wachowskis’ fingerprints are everywhere. The film shares the kinetic, hyper-stylized violence of The Matrix but swaps sci-fi for feudal-modern hybrid. Training montages in the clan’s mountain fortress evoke Lady Snowblood and classic Shaw Brothers films. The final showdown—a rain-soaked sword fight between Raizo and the clan’s immortal leader (Sho Kosugi, the actual 1980s ninja legend)—is a wet, lightning-lit ballet of revenge.