Shûhei Fujisawa

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A traveling gambler known as “Funeral Uno” he is now 86 years old and returning to his hometown for the first time in 30 years. Partly told in flashbacks, he is forced to face his lifelong nemesis, Boss Kyuzo, a vile yakuza portrayed by another superstar of samurai cinema, Atsuo Nakamura! Before the two old gamblers can settle a 30-year-old score they must put their lives on the line in a game of dice that can only lead to a bloody sword duel the likes of which has never before been seen! Superb performances all around in a film loaded with surprises and exciting swordplay!

Part of the Shûhei Fujisawa New Drama Series.

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. As a ”Heya-zumi” (essentially a freeloader living off his family) Sanosuke has one last chance to help his grandniece escape from the cruel samurai of an arranged marriage. Nakadai proves he ”still has it,” when fate forces him into a deadly duel. This award winning samurai drama from the pen of noted author Fujisawa Shuhei is a tribute to one of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen!

A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.

에도시대. 우나사카 번, 소대장을 맡고 있던 카네미 산자에몬은 영주의 첩 렌코를 죽인다. 하지만 내려진 명령은 의외로 가벼운 처벌이었다. 번주의 이복 동생은 직심류 검술의 명인으로 그가 번주를 공격할 경우 대등한 검술의 달인은 필살기 ‘토리사시’를 몸에 익힌 산자에몬이기 때문이다. 그의 운명은 필사 검법 토리사시에 달려 있는데..

Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges Magoshiro to a sword match using bamboo sticks. Mahoshiro accepts. The pair's duel causes sparks to fly an attraction from both sides. Meanwhile, Ito faces an arranged marriage with Saisuke Katagiri and Magoshiro is with Kayo...

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.

키타기리 무네조는 어머니와 누나, 그리고 키에와 함께 행복한 생활을 하고 있었다. 어머니가 돌아가신 후, 누나도 하급무사에게 시집을 가고, 키에 역시 혼담이 성사되자 무네조는 번에 들어가 서양 전술을 배우기 시작한다. 그러던 어느 날, 어머니의 3주기를 맞은 키타기리는 추모 모임에서 돌아오던 중 키에가 쓰러졌다는 소식을 듣게 된다. 창고에서 키에를 발견한 키타기리는 그녀를 자신의 집으로 데려와 간호하고, 예전과 같은 행복한 생활이 시작된다. 그러나 무네조의 친구인 야이치로가 반역의 주동자로 극형에 처해지자 스승인 토다는 무네조에게 비검인 오니노츠메를 전해주는데...

하급 무사인 이구치 세이베에는 가족들을 돌보기 위해 일과가 끝나면 동료들과 어울리지도 않고 곧장 집으로 돌아간다. 친구들은 이런 그를 황혼의 세이베에라며 놀리지만 그는 아랑곳하지 않는다. 그러던 어느 날, 세이베에는 옛친구인 이이누마와 재회하고 그의 여동생인 토모에가 친정에 돌아와 있다는 사실을 전해듣는다. 그리고 우연한 기회에 토모에의 남편과 결투를 하게 된 세이베에는 그를 간단히 제압하여 이름을 알리게 된다. 남편의 학대를 받고 살아오던 토모에는 이 일을 계기로 세이베에와 가까워지는데...

After witnessing his chief retainer’s plot to murder their lord, Matahachiro fled to lose himself in Edo’s crowded streets. By day he sells his sword skills to the highest bidder. By night he fights for his life against deadly swordsmen his clan sends to silence him. His samurai spirit is at its lowest ebb, his only solace a lovely female ninja, his paramour and potentially his deadly enemy. But as Edo witnesses the unfolding of the legendary vendetta of 47 Ronin, sworn to avenge Lord Asano against the treacherous Kira, Matahachiro’s small role in their noble quest will revive his bushido ideals. Sword in hand, he will seek his own bloody justice!