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Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?Read moreLess
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
The story
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
Cast & crew
Koji YakushoBakin Takizawa
Seiyo UchinoHokusai Katsushika
Tao TsuchiyaFusehime
Keisuke WatanabeShino Inuzuka
Jin SuzukiSousuke Inukawa
Rihito ItagakiKeno Inusaka
Koshi MizukamiGenpachi Inukai
Koudai MatsuokaDaikaku Inumura
So KakuKobungo Inuta
Maito FujiokaShinbe Inue
Shuhei UesugiDousetsu Inuyama
Chiaki KuriyamaTamazusaExplore the crew
- Director
- Fumihiko Sori
- Screenplay
- Fumihiko Sori
- Director of Photography
- Akira Sako
- Editor
- Chieko Suzaki
- Producer
- Yumiko Yoshihara
- Producer
- Yukiko Tanigawa
- Original Music Composer
- Yasuhiro Maeda
- Original Music Composer
- Reiji Kitasato