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Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword to protect those he loves in this adaptation of a Fujisawa Shuhei novel.
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 71GoodWatch 76
IMDb7.1
Running time
1 h 34 min
Shorter than most dramas, −15 min on the typical 109
typical 10994Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Released
2015
October 31, 2015
11 years ago
Genres
TV MovieDramaLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
Japan
and 5 moreDirecting · 2
- Shigemichi Sugita Director
- Yasutaka Maehara Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Masahiro Kobayashi Screenplay
- Shuhei Fujisawa Novel
Production · 3
- Tomoyuki Miyagawa Producer
- Tetsuo Sasho Producer
- 秋永全徳 Producer
Camera · 1
- Akira Hamana Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Chizuko Osada Editor
Sound · 2
- Takashi Kako Music
- Makoto Fujiwara Sound Effects
Art · 2
- Tomoko Kurata Art Direction
- Hideshi Nakagomi Set Designer
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Kunio Yamasaki Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 1
- Hiroshi Sasaki Visual Effects Supervisor
Lighting · 1
- Takaaki Miyanishi Lighting Manager
Other crew · 1
- Mitsuhiko Seike Fight Choreographer
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