I liked "Dora-heita", believing that it provided fun characters, an engaging story, a quirky sense of humor, exotic locations, fine cinematography, an eccentric score and awesome fight scenes. It might not be the best samurai flick of all time, but neither were the majority of flicks by Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi or Keisuke Kinoshita. So why would you expect it to be anything more than a good film?