Kanichiro Yoshimura, a samurai and a family man, can no longer feed his wife and children due to the low wages paid by his small town clan. Sadly, he packs up and leaves his loved ones for the big…
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19thcentury Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while…
Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada — who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series — directs this good-natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600-1867). Seibei (Hiroyuki…
