Product Details

• Actors: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa
• Directors: Yôji Yamada
• Format: PAL, Color, Import
• Subtitles: Russian
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Kino bez granic
• Run Time: 123 minutes
• ASIN: B0026KPU7A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #639,774 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences. The consequences are cruel.