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Unforgiven is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Lee Sang-il with Ken Watanabe
Unforgiven (2013)
許されざる者
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Add to a movie listUnforgiven (許されざる者, Yurusarezaru Mono) is a 2013 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Lee Sang-il. It is a remake of Clint Eastwood's 1992 western Unforgiven. The film was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
The plot closely follows the original 1992 film, but shifts the setting to Japan's Hokkaido frontier during the early Meiji period. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), a former samurai, is approached by an old associate to help claim the bounty on two men who disfigured a prostitute.
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Shortly after the start of the Meiji period, a former samurai under the Edo Shogunate, Jubei Kamata, flees from government forces on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Jubei kills his pursuers and disappears, but remains infamous as “Jubei the Killer”.Actors
Ken Watanabe
(Jubee Kamata)
Akira Emoto
(Kingo Baba)
Koichi Sato
(Ichizo Oishi)
Yūya Yagira
(Goro Sawada)
Shiori Kutsuna
(Natsume)
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