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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?
Language
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue $7,372,769
日本語
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue $7,372,769
Keywords
daughter
japan
samurai
based on novel or book
sword
mission of murder
teacher
sword fight
honor
period drama
historical
widower
jidaigeki
feudal japan
19th century
historical romance
bushi
bakumatsu
earnest
sincere
Casts

Hiroyuki Sanada
Seibei Iguchi

Rie Miyazawa
Tomoe Iinuma

Nenji Kobayashi
Choubei Kusaka

Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Michinojo Iinuma

Min Tanaka
Zenemon Yogo

Ren Osugi
Toyotaro Koda

Hiroshi Kanbe
Naota

Miki Ito
Kayano Iguchi

Ito Senba
Ito Iguchi

Keiko Kishi
Older Ito Iguchi

Reiko Kusamura
Kinu Iguchi

Tetsuro Tamba
Tozaemon Iguchi

Kanako Fukaura
Yae Iinuma

Makoto Akatsuka
Yazaki

Masahiro Sato
Sekiguchi

Masayasu Kitayama
Kawanami

Baijaku Nakamura
Gonbei Terauchi
Yuuki Natsusaka
Gemba Hattori

Takai Mizuno
Tane

Toshinori Omi
Shichijuro Ohtsuka
Kinnosuke Nakamura II
Samurai Lord
Keishi Arashi
Chief Retainer Hori

Rio Ishino
Pageboy
Norio Sato
Rickshaw Driver

Senri Sakurai
Tozaemon's Attendant
Jun Maeda

Setsuko Tanaka
Tsukasa Sugawara
Ryota Sato
Koichi Taniguchi
Teruhiko Tanaka
Takako Miyajima

Sachiko Takada

Mayu Komori
Takahiro Kuriya
Atsushi Yoshikawa
Kenji Yoshida

Takashi Yamazaki
Shinya Amako
Crews
Hiroshi Fukazawa
Producer
Shuhei Fujisawa
Novel
Tomoo Miyagawa
Executive Producer
Yoshitaka Asama
Screenplay
Tomiyasu Ishikawa
Executive Producer
Toshio Hagiwara
Executive Producer
Tetsuo Suga
Executive Producer
Shigehiro Nakagawa
Producer

Yoji Yamada
Director
Motoyuki Oka
Executive Producer
Iwao Ishii
Editor
Ichiro Yamamoto
Producer

Mutsuo Naganuma
Director of Photography
Nobuyoshi Otani
Executive Producer

Yoji Yamada
Screenplay
Isao Tomita
Original Music Composer
Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design
Kazumi Kishida
Sound Recordist
Yosui Inoue
Main Title Theme Composer
Yosui Inoue
Theme Song Performance
Atsushi Shimamura
Decorator
Shigeyuki Onodera
Music Producer
Sayuri Suzuki
Still Photographer
Tadashi Kaneda
Still Photographer
Kinichi Hanawa
Assistant Director
Mikito Tanaka
Assistant Director
Yoshinori Aso
Production Manager
Yukio Hokari
Sound Effects
Yuzo Asahara
Assistant Director
Junichi Mine
Unit Production Manager
Takakazu Aiba
Production Manager
Masaki Arai
Assistant Director
Yasutaka Maehara
Assistant Director
Ayato Kurokawa
Assistant Director
Emiko Hiramatsu
Assistant Director

Yoshinobu Nishioka
Production Design
Tomohiko Saito
Unit Production Manager
Mitsuo Degawa
Art Direction
Naoko Asari
Music Editor
Shinji Hiraki
Assistant Camera
Miho Kimbara
Assistant Camera
Ichiro Suzuki
Second Assistant Camera
Makoto Kusaka
Assistant Camera
Tsugio Okada
Second Assistant Camera
Yukio Kaneko
Steadicam Operator
Takefumi Nakabo
Assistant Camera
Takaaki Miyanishi
Additional Lighting Technician
Gengon Nakaoka
Chief Lighting Technician
Haruhiro Yamaguchi
Additional Lighting Technician
Jun Kodama
Additional Lighting Technician
Hisao Kagami
Additional Lighting Technician
Masahiko Kataoka
Additional Lighting Technician
Kazuo Matsuda
Costumer
Shunri Rinoie
Additional Lighting Technician
Emiko Yuzawa
Costumer
Hiroshi Kuze
Fight Choreographer
Yuki Hisamichi
Makeup Artist
Yuuki Natsusaka
Fight Choreographer
Sonomi Muramatsu
Makeup Artist
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