Empire Pictures (2004)
Action | Foreign
Japan | Japanese | Color | 02:09
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences. The consequences are cruel.
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Hiroyuki Sanada | Seibei Iguchi |
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Rie Miyazawa | Tomoe Iinuma |
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Nenji Kobayashi | Choubei Kusaka |
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Ren Osugi | Toyotaro Koda |
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Mitsuru Fukikoshi | Michinojo Iinuma |
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Kanako Fukaura | Yae Iinuma |
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Hiroshi Kanbe | Naota |
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Miki Ito | Kayano Iguchi |
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Erina Hashiguchi | Ito Iguchi |
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Reiko Kusamura | Kinu Iguchi |
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Setsuko Tanaka | |
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Kii Mizuno | Tane |
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Yuuki Natsusaka | Gemba Hattori |
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Astushi Maeda | |
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Tsukasa Sugawara | |
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Kôichi Taniguchi | |
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Teruhiko Tanaka | |
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Takako Miyashima | |
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Sachiko Takada | |
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Mayu Komori | |
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Astushi Yoshikawa | |
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Kenji Yoshida | |
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Takashi Yamazaki | |
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Shinya Amako | |
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Rio Ishino |
| Director | Yoji Yamada |
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| Writer | Shûhei Fujisawa, Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama | |
| Producer | Hiroshi Fukazawa, Tomiyasu Ishikawa, Tetsuo Kan, Tomoo Miyakawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa, Toshio Ogiwara, Motoyuki Oka, Ichiro Yamamoto, Nobuyoshi Otani | |
| Musician | Isao Tomita | |
| Photography | Mutsuo Naganuma | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [Japanese] Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Dec 28, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |