Take up your sword.
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Koji YakushoShinzaemon Shimada
- Takayuki YamadaShinrokuro Shimada
- Yusuke IseyaKoyata
- Goro InagakiLord Naritsugu Matsudaira
- Kazue FukiishiTsuya / Upashi
- Hiroki MatsukataKuranaga
- Tsuyoshi IharaKuzuro Hirayama
- Ikki SawamuraGunziro Mitsuhasi
- Arata FurutaHeizo Sahara
- Sousuke TakaokaYasoyosi Hioki
Crew
- Takashi MiikeDirector
- Daisuke TenganScreenplay
- Nobuyasu KitaDirector of Photography
- Koji EndoOriginal Music Composer
- Kenji YamashitaEditor
- Minami IchikawaProducer
- Tōichirō ShiraishiProducer
- Shigeji MaedaProducer
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