When the Last Sword Is Drawn
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| When the Last Sword Is Drawn | |
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| Directed by | Yojiro 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. |
| IMDb profile | |
| JMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (壬生義士伝 Mibu Gishi Den) is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yojiro Takita.
[edit] Plot summary
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.
[edit] Cast
- 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
[edit] External links
- When the Last Sword Is Drawn review at Kung Fu Cinema
