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When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
Directed by Yojiro Takita
Action, Drama, History · 2h 17m
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a samurai and family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the low pay he receives from his small-town clan. He is forced by his love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.
Cast
Kiichi Nakai
Kanichiro Yoshimura
Koichi Sato
Hajime Saito
Yui Natsukawa
Shizu / Mitsu
Takehiro Murata
Chiaki Ono
Miki Nakatani
Nui
Yuji Miyake
Jiroemon Ohno
Masato Sakai
Okita Soji
Atsushi Ito
Young Chiaki Ono
Ryo Kase
Shûhei Kondô
Keisuke Horibe
Yasunoshin Shinohara
Eugene Nomura
Hijikata Toshizō
Masayoshi Haneda
Crew
- Director
- Yojiro Takita
- Screenplay
- Takehiro Nakajima
- Novel
- Jiro Asada
- Director of Photography
- Takeshi Hamada
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi
- Editor
- Nobuko Tomita, Isao Tomita
- Producer
- Nozomu Enoki, Hideshi Miyajima
Details
- Original title
- 壬生義士伝
- Release date
- 2003-01-18
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku, TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, dentsu, Eisei Gekijo, Culture Publishers, Iwate Broadcasting, IMAGICA, NIPPON EFFECT CENTER, Japan Action Enterprise
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Box office
- $2,487,338