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Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012)
Directed by Yojiro Takita
Drama, History · 2h 21m
A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan. Based on the life of Santetsu Yasui (December 27, 1639-November 1, 1715), appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial request.
Cast
Aoi Miyazaki
Junichi Okada
Kiichi Nakai
Ryuta Sato
Takashi Sasano
Shota Sometani
Crew
- Director
- Yojiro Takita
- Screenplay
- Yojiro Takita
- Writer
- Masato Katō
- Novel
- Tow Ubukata
- Director of Photography
- Takeshi Hamada
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi
- Editor
- Soichi Ueno
- Producer
- Yasushi Shiina, Kazutaka Akimoto, Julie K. Fujishima, Nozomu Enoki, Arimasa Okada, Fumio Inoue, Shinichirou Inoue, Toshihisa Watai
Details
- Original title
- 天地明察
- Release date
- 2012-09-15
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- KADOKAWA, Shochiku Studio, KADOKAWA Shoten, TBS, J Storm, MBS, CBC, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation, WOWOW, Hokkaido Broadcasting, The Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, jeki, Fukushima Minpō, TV-U Fukushima