Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Hiroyuki SanadaSeibei Iguchi
- Rie MiyazawaTomoe Iinuma
- Nenji KobayashiChoubei Kusaka
- Mitsuru FukikoshiMichinojo Iinuma
- Min TanakaZenemon Yogo
- Ren OsugiToyotaro Koda
- Hiroshi KanbeNaota
- Miki ItoKayano Iguchi
- Ito SenbaIto Iguchi
- Keiko KishiOlder Ito Iguchi
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- Yoji YamadaDirector
- Yoshitaka AsamaScreenplay
- Yoji YamadaScreenplay
- Shuhei FujisawaNovel
- Mutsuo NaganumaDirector of Photography
- Isao TomitaOriginal Music Composer
- Iwao IshiiEditor
- Hiroshi FukazawaProducer
- Shigehiro NakagawaProducer
- Ichiro YamamotoProducer
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