A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

Synopsis

This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology. While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are struggling with the high-tech equipment, their skills at creating choreographed sword battles are undiminished. The NHK project will dramatize the Ikedaya incident, which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate. A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360° one-cut scene involving the world’s most advanced high-speed camera and wire action for a scene where Kondo Isami will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya. Can they succeed in filming the single greatest swordfight scene in samurai movie history?!?

Main Cast

Seiyo Uchino

Age : 55 | Popularity : 3%

Tasuku Emoto

Age : 37 | Popularity : 3%

Shido Nakamura

Age : 51 | Popularity : 5%

Miki Mizuno

Age : 49 | Popularity : 6%

Takahiro Fujimoto

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Akira Hamada

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Mitsuo Sagawa

Age : 84 | Popularity : 3%

Hirotaro Honda

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Takashi Minamoto
Writing	Writer	Takashi Minamoto
Sound	Music	Umitaro Abe
Department	Role	Name

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