{"id":2648,"date":"2024-06-30T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T04:50:23","slug":"film-blue-eye-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/30\/film-blue-eye-samurai\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: Blue Eye Samurai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Blue Eye Samurai<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81144203\">published by Netflix<br><\/a>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a gorgeous animated drama of a woman seeking revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizu is an outcast in feudal Japan , a bi-racial child who narrowly escaped being killed at birth.  She grows up determined to avenge her mother against the foreigner who ruined everything, living as a man and training as a warrior to achieve her primary goal: vengeance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonding with other outcasts despite her efforts to remain cold and uncaring, she finds that her non-vengeance attempts at living push her back toward the violence she seeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJ1yQn17lbE?si=e3698AyIRSTe__SM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The imagery in this series is strikingly beautiful, and I spoke to the television with delight over countless compositions.  <em>The lighting!  The buildings! The skies! The waves!  The reflections! <\/em> Yes, this is a supremely violent action series, but it is also one of great beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love everything but the very end, though I understand it has been renewed, so the finality I seek (setting aside Mizu&#8217;s motivations) may yet be delivered in more gorgeous episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Eye Samuraipublished by Netflix2023 This is a gorgeous animated drama of a woman seeking revenge. Mizu is an outcast in feudal Japan , a bi-racial child who narrowly escaped being killed at birth. She grows up determined to avenge her mother against the foreigner who ruined everything, living as a man and training as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/30\/film-blue-eye-samurai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: Blue Eye Samurai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-anime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}