Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
- japan
- samurai
- asia
- honor
- poverty
- seppuku
- code of honor
- ronin
- shogun
- jidaigeki
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Naoto Takenaka — Tajiri
- Kazuki Namioka — Umanosuke Kawabe
- Hirofumi Arai — Hayatonosho Matsuzaki
- Munetaka Aoki — Hikokuro Omodaka
- Takashi Sasano — Sousuke priest
- Gorō Daimon — Priest
- Ayumu Saito — Fujita
- Takehiro Hira — Naotaka Ii
- Baijaku Nakamura — Jinnai Chijiiwa
- Ippei Takahashi — Naito
- Yoshihisa Amano — Sasaki
- Directed
- Takashi Miike
- Written
- Kikumi Yamagishi
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 206 ratings
- Studio
- Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun, Recorded Picture Company, Sedic International, Amuse Soft Entertainment, Kodansha, Yahoo! Japan
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
