A samurai named Kanemi Sanzaemon (Etsushi Toyokawa), who is known for his original “bird catching” style of swordplay is pulled into a battle to the death when he kills a feudal lord’s mistress after she uses her influence to corrupt local politics.
Cast includes Etsushi Toyokawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Fumiyo Kohinata, Naho Toda, Koji Kikkawa, and Ittoku Kishibe.
So far, four samurai films have been adapted from the literary works of Shuhei Fujisawa and they’re all modern classics that recall a time long past when Japan’s film industry was cranking out a steady stream of samurai masterpieces. Other big-screen adaptations include THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, THE HIDDEN BLADE, THE SAMURAI I LOVED, and LOVE AND HONOR. By the looks of it, HISSHIKEN TORISASHI appears to be another high-brow diversion from the C-grade, bargain basement schlock and anime that generally amounts to action films in Japan these days.
HISSHIKEN TORISASHI is heading to theaters in Japan on July 10, 2010.
This looks like a must see Chamabara(Samurai) film! My favorite genre.
Seems to me you could have just said samurai movie, instead of sounding like a pretentious cock.
But yeah, it looked good up ’til then.
Pretentious? Excuse me for having film knowledge.
Excuse you for trying to impress the immensity of your film knowledge on everyone.
Trying? You meant succeeding.
Pffft. I’m not even a fan of Asian movies and I know what chambara is. Which is, in fact, how it is spelled.
That is an awesome typo. Besides I did this early in the mornin. Well you should be. Asian Cinema is better then Irish Cinema. There, I said it.
Well of course. I think we’ve made 2 good movies in the past, what, 20 years?
I will say that Hunger (2008) is a f*cking epic movie. The story of IRA Bobby Sands and his hunger strike.
Yeah, I’m counting that as one.
I can’t think of anymore.
I was reading the write-up while watching (what I thought was the trailer) and wondering “Wtf? Is this a game? Joke? What?”, then I realized it was a commercial. And that’s all I have to say about that.
It’s a movie trailer. A commercial for a movie. F*ck! why is everyone giving me shit? WTF did I do?
There’s a commercial before the trailer starts.
Oh. So there is. Somehow I thought that would disappear when I posted it… Woops. Lame commercial too.