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The Courier (2017)
Directed by Sho Miyake
Drama · 1h 00m
At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dutch scholars who wanted to open the country secretly completed a copy of a map of Japan under shogunate control. They sent a young Dutch scholar, Michi-an, as a secret envoy to deliver the copy of the map to the Dutch. Michi-an, hiding himself and making his way through the deserted winter mountains, but the mountain guardians, led by Takayama, had begun hunting in the mountains with a description of Michi-an's appearance arranged by the shogunate.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Sho Miyake
- Screenplay
- Sho Miyake, Hiroshi Matsui
- Director of Photography
- Hidetoshi Shinomiya
- Original Music Composer
- Hi'Spec
- Editor
- Sho Miyake
Details
- Original title
- 密使と番人
- Release date
- 2017-07-22
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp.
Tomomitsu Adachi
Kai Inowaki
Shizuka Ishibashi
Ryu Morioka
Takaya Shibata
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
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