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The Magnificent Nine

2016 · 130 min

A warm, witty period caper that turns small-town scheming into a quietly tense and satisfying underdog tale.

Directed by
Yoshihiro Nakamura
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Sadao Abe, Eita Nagayama, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Overview
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.

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Directed by
Yoshihiro Nakamura
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Sadao Abe, Eita Nagayama, Satoshi Tsumabuki
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • power
  • survival
  • friendship
  • justice
Places
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Written by
Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kenichi Suzuki
Starring
Sadao Abe, Eita Nagayama, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Karen Iwata, Yuko Takeuchi, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yasufumi Terawaki, Yudai Chiba
Music
Goro Yasukawa
Cinematography
Yukihiro Okimura
Runtime
130 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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