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A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Koji YakushoKageyu
- Ichikawa Ebizo XIHanshirô Tsugumo
- Eita NagayamaMotome
- Hikari MitsushimaMiho
- Naoto TakenakaTajiri
- Kazuki NamiokaUmanosuke Kawabe
- Hirofumi AraiHayatonosho Matsuzaki
- Munetaka AokiHikokuro Omodaka
- Takashi SasanoSousuke priest
- Gorō DaimonPriest
Crew
- Takashi MiikeDirector
- Kikumi YamagishiScreenplay
- Yasuhiko TakiguchiNovel
- Nobuyasu KitaDirector of Photography
- Ryuichi SakamotoOriginal Music Composer
- Kenji YamashitaEditor
- Frédérique Dumas-ZajdelaProducer
- Toshiaki NakazawaProducer
- Kensuke ZushiProducer
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