Full awards and nominations of A Samurai Chronicle
Drama
Towards the end of the Edo period, Shozaburo Danno (Junichi Okada) receives an order from Nakane, the prime minister at the han. The order is to keep watch over Akiya Toda (Koji Yakusho), who has been in confinement for killing a boy servant who had an affair with his concubine 7 years ago. Akiya Toda is expected to commit hara-kiri within 3 years. In the meantime, Akiya Toda works on an order from the previous daimyo to write the daimyo's family tree into a book. [+]
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38th Japan Academy Film Prize
- nom. Best Film
- nom. Best Director (Takashi Koizumi)
- nom. Best Actor (Kôji Yakusho)
- winner Best Supporting Actor (Junichi Okada)
- nom. Best Music (Takashi Kako)
- nom. Best Cinematography (Masaharu Ueda, Hiroyuki Kitazawa)
- nom. Best Lighting Direction (Hideaki Yamakawa)
- nom. Best Art Direction (Tadashi Sakai)
- nom. Best Sound Recording (Masato Yano)
- nom. Best Film Editing (Hideto Aga)