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Samurai Fiction is a japonais film of genre Comedy directed by Hiroyuki Nakano released in USA on 27 october 1998 with Tomoyasu Hotei
Samurai Fiction (1998)
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Add to a movie listSamurai Fiction (SF サムライ・フィクション, Esu Efu Samurai Fikushon) is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the works of Akira Kurosawa. A loose spinoff was released in 2001, as Red Shadow.
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The plot centers on Inukai Heishirō (Mitsuru Fukikoshi), the son of a clan officer. One of his clan's most precious heirlooms, a sword given them by the Shogun, has been stolen by the samurai Kazamatsuri (Tomoyasu Hotei). Against his father's advice, Heishirō insists on retrieving the sword himself. His father sends two ninja after him to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid.Actors
Tomoyasu Hotei
(Rannosuke Kazamatsuri)
Morio Kazama
(Hanbei Mizoguchi)
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
(Heishiro Inukai)
Mari Natsuki
(Okatsu)
Taketoshi Naito
(Kanzen Inukai)
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