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is a 2014 Japanese film directed by Takashi Koizumi.
Cast
*Kji Yakusho as Shkoku Toda
*Junichi Okada as Shzabur Dan'no
*Maki Horikita as Kaoru Toda
*Mieko Harada as Orie Toda
*Shinobu Terajima
*Hisashi Igawa
*Kenichi Yajima
Plot
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. A squire is sent by the prime minister of Japan to keep watch over him.
Development
Teruyo Nogami, who was a longtime assistant of Akira Kurosawa, worked as a special adviser on the film, and joined the director and star for a question and answer session about the film.[
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The film was based on an award-winning novel by Rin Hamuro.[
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Koizumi claimed that he did not want to send any political messages with the film and instead intended to portray the real life events as accurately as possible.[
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Reception
The film debuted at number two in the Japanese box office and grossed a total of $8,804,424 in Japan.
The Japan Times awarded the film a score of five out of ten, saying that the film failed to invoke the film of Akira Kurosawa that it was influenced by. [Though Koizumi and his veteran staff try to channel that sensibility, they are not Kurosawa, and though A Samurai Chronicle echoes the masters work, it lacks his vivifying presence.
References
External lists
*http://www.thefilmcatalogue.com/catalog/FilmDetail.php?id=17808
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Category:2014 films
Category:Samurai films
Category:2010s Japanese films
Category:2010s Japanese-language films
Category:Films about miscarriage of justice
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