Released Date:
2010-09-11
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
139 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (852 Reviews)
Director:
Sang-il LeeGenres:
DramaShèichi Yoshida (based on the novel by)
Shèichi Yoshida (screenplay)
Sang-il Lee (screenplay)
A young woman's murder provokes reflection on the ugliness and villainy of modern society.
Released Date:
2013-09-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (942 Reviews)
Director:
Sang-il LeeDavid Webb Peoples
Sang-il Lee (screenplay)
Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscarè-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubee Kamata (Oscarè nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubee is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.
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