The Retired Samurai

Overview

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much less the desire to assert himself and make Iemitsu listen to reason. The plot thickens when a lovely young woman enters the picture. Can she change Hikozaemon's mind, and thus alter the path of Japanese history? No longer a young man, can Hikozaemon gain the shogun's ear, and succeed in warning him of the evil plot to overthrow him?

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 10, 1987

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company,TV Asahi

Cast

Misako Tanaka,Daijiro Tsutsumi,Toshirō Mifune,Ryo Tamura,Shunji Fujimura

Director

Akinori Matsuo

Writer

Ichirō Miyagawa,Shūgorō Yamamoto

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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