Thursday, April 17, 2008
Yagyu ichizoku no inbo / Shogun's Samurai
JP 1978. PC: Toei. D: Kinji Fukasaku. DP: Toru Nakajima - Toeiscope. Starring Kinnosuke Yorozuya Nakamura (Yagyu Tajima), Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba (Yagyu Jubei). 130 min. A Japan Foundation print with English subtitles. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 17 April 2008. - I caught a portion of Fukasaku's major jidai-geki, the tale of the war of succession of the Tokugawa clan. Two sons of an assassinated shogun face a difficult future.
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