Former music video director and fashion photographer Kiriya Kazuaki follows his post-apocalyptic Casshern with an insanely OTT CGI giant screen adaptation of a beloved saga of 16th century banditry and ninja action – akin in Japanese culture to the Anglo Robin Hood. But don’t come looking for folkloric charm: Kiriya’s style is all visual overload all the time.

“Kiriya and his collaborators move heaven and earth (or rather, millions of pixels) to jazz this familiar material, creating a 16th century Japan in which everything from costumes and castles to armies and weaponry have been blown up from kernels of fact to Brobdingnagian fantasies... Kiriya goes... about as far as one can go, in fact – without turning the film into a motion-captured animation or video game. Visually, Goemon is blow-out-the-eyeballs spectacular.”— Mark Schilling, Japan Times