Movie
Snow on The Blades
2014 · 120 min
A somber, deliberate samurai drama that weighs duty and shame against a changing world, with bursts of swordplay and a lingering sense of loss.
- Directed by
- Setsuro Wakamatsu
- Genres
- History, Action, Drama
- Starring
- Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Kichiemon Nakamura II
- Tagline
- The last of the bodyguards hunts for the final assassin.
- Overview
- At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
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- Directed by
- Setsuro Wakamatsu
- Genres
- History, Action, Drama
- Starring
- Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Kichiemon Nakamura II
