

In the end, we had no choice but to have it this way. We just took a roundabout path.
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Hotsakeon TMDB · Jul 201710/10
Has some of the best acting I've ever seen in a film. You can taste the tension and anguish between the main character's loyalty for his lord and his son.
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Cast
- Toshirō MifuneIsaburo Sasahara
- Yōko TsukasaIchi Sasahara
- Gō KatōYogoro Sasahara
- Tatsuyoshi EharaBunzo Sasahara
- Etsuko IchiharaKiku
- Isao YamagataShobei Tsuchiya
- Tatsuya NakadaiTatewaki Asano
- Shigeru KōyamaGeki Takahashi
- Michiko OtsukaSuga Sasahara
- Tatsuo MatsumuraLord Masakata Matsudaira
Crew
- Masaki KobayashiDirector
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Yasuhiko TakiguchiNovel
- Kazuo YamadaDirector of Photography
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
- Hisashi SagaraEditor
- Toshirō MifuneProducer
- Tomoyuki TanakaProducer
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