A Samurai Chronicle
- Original title
- Higurashi no ki
- Year
- 2014
- Running time
- 129 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Kôji Yakusho
- Junichi Okada
- Maki Horikita
- Haruto Yoshida
- Munetaka Aoki
- Mieko Harada
- Hisashi Igawa
- Shinobu Terajima
- Kazuyoshi Kushida
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Feudal Japan
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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2015: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: Best Supporting Actor. 10 nominations
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