When the Last Sword Is Drawn
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Directed by	Yōjirō Takita
Produced by	Nozomu Enoki Hideji Miyajima
Written by	Story: Jiro Asada Screenplay: Takehiro Nakajima
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Takeshi Hamada
Editing by	Nobuko Tomita
Distributed by	Shochiku
Released	January 18, 2003
Running time	137 min.
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn (壬生義士伝, Mibu Gishi Den) is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita.

Plot summaryEdit

In the late Edo period Kanichiro Yoshimura joins the Shinsegumi clan as a means of providing for his impoverished family. Fellow samurai Hajime Saito is offended that anyone would equate the samurai lifestyle to a job taken up for the sole purpose of earning money. Because of this, he challenges Yoshimura to a duel, only to be defeated rather handedly. Yoshimura represents a new generation used to having to adapt to survive. Saito represents the old guard, depending on tradition and samurai code in an era when those ideals are slowly fading.

CastEdit

• Kiichi Nakai ... Kanichiro Yoshimura
• Koichi Sato ... Hajime Saito
• Yui Natsukawa ... Shizu / Mitsu
• Takehiro Murata ... Chiaki Ono
• Miki Nakatani ... Nui
• Yuji Miyake ... Jiroemon Ohno
• Yoshinori Hiruma ... Shinpachi Nagakura
• Keisuke Horibe ... Yasunoshin Shinohara
• Atsushi Ito ... Young Chiaki Ono
• Hideaki Ito ... Yoshinobu Tokugawa
• Ryo Kase ... Shuhei Kondo
• Momo Nakayama ... Young Mitsu Yoshimura
• Eugene Nomura ... Toshizo Hijikata
• Ayumu Saito ... Ito
• Masato Sakai ... Soji Okita
• Sansei Shiomi ... Isamu Kondo
• Sora Toma ... Kaichiro Yoshimura
• Koji Tsukamoto ... Sonoyama
• Dai Watanabe
• Tatsuo Yamada ... Sasuke

External linksEdit

• When the Last Sword Is Drawn review at Kung Fu Cinema