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Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?Read moreLess
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
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Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
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Hiroyuki SanadaSeibei Iguchi
Rie MiyazawaTomoe Iinuma
Nenji KobayashiChoubei Kusaka
Mitsuru FukikoshiMichinojo Iinuma
Min TanakaZenemon Yogo
Ren OsugiToyotaro Koda
Hiroshi KanbeNaota
Miki ItoKayano Iguchi
Ito SenbaIto Iguchi
Keiko KishiOlder Ito Iguchi
Reiko KusamuraKinu Iguchi
Tetsuro TambaTozaemon IguchiExplore the crew
- Producer
- Hiroshi Fukazawa
- Screenplay
- Yoshitaka Asama
- Producer
- Shigehiro Nakagawa
- Director
- Yoji Yamada
- Editor
- Iwao Ishii
- Producer
- Ichiro Yamamoto
- Director of Photography
- Mutsuo Naganuma
- Screenplay
- Yoji Yamada
- Original Music Composer
- Isao Tomita