A Samurai Chronicle

A Samurai Chronicle

Overview

A content samurai is given ten years to comprehensively chronicle his clan before he commits harakiri, or ritual disembowelment, for being caught in a tryst with one of the concubines of the lord of the fief. However, not all is as it seems. Nonetheless, fearing dishonoured if the tasked samurai has second thoughts about his sentence chief retainer to the lord assigns a younger samurai to live with and oversee the older swordsman.

Ratings

IMDb 6.6
TMDB 7.4

Details

Director Takashi Koizumi
Cast Haruto Yoshida, Junichi Okada, Koji Yakusho, Maki Horikita, Mieko Harada
Genre Drama, Mystery
Country Japan
Release Year 2014
Runtime: 2h 9m
Budget: 8,804,424 USD
Release Date: 2014-10-04
Awards: Awards, 1 win & 11 nominations total