Top billed cast

1. 

   Koji Yakusho

   Shinzaemon Shimada

2. 

   Takayuki Yamada

   Shinrokuro Shimada

3. 

   Yūsuke Iseya

   Koyata

4. 

   Goro Inagaki

   Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira

5. 

   Kazue Fukiishi

   Tsuya / Upashi

6. 

   Hiroki Matsukata

   Kuranaga

7. 

   Tsuyoshi Ihara

   Kuzuro Hirayama

8. 

   Ikki Sawamura

   Gunziro Mitsuhasi

9. 

   Arata Furuta

   Heizo Sahara

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-27

Very much in the spirit of Kurosawa, Takashi Miike has assembled a strong cast to depict some fairly epic struggles for power in the 19th century Japanese shogunate. It's the brother of the Shogun who seems to be the source of the trouble. Having mercilessly murdered a family - against the instructions of his sibling - he has earned the enmity of veteran Samurai "Shinzaemon" (Kôji Yakusho) but with a significant political appointment in Edo looming, it would appear he is untouchable. It's the journey "Naritsugu" (Gorô Inagaki) must make through the densely forested countryside that might off...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$17,555,141.00

Keywords

• suicide
• mission
• japan
• assassin
• samurai
• immortality
• swordsman
• massacre
• battle
• samurai sword
• seppuku
• code of honor
• ronin
• kimono
• jidaigeki
• edo period
• warrior
• 19th century
• harakiri
• bakumatsu