Tajomaru - Sword of Bandits
A Remake of Kurosawa's Rashomon
Director: Hiroyuki Nakano
Casting: Shun Oguri, Hiroki Matsukata, Yuki Shibamoto, Kei Tanaka, Kyosuke Yabe, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Gou Ayano, Takamasa Suga, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Hirotaro Honda
Based on Japanese classic novel "Yabu no Naka" written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which is original story of Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon." Starring Shun Oguri.
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword.
Set sometime in the late Muromachi period, Naomitsu Hatakeyama is the second son of the distinguished Hatakeyama family. His lifelong friend and and love interest is Ako-hime. When Ako-hime's father dies, Yoshimasa Ashikaga elicits a decree that will forever change their fates.
Soon afterwards, Naomitsu is betrayed by his very own brother Nobutsuna Hatakeyama, who plans to forcibly take Aho-hime for himself. Naomitsu loves Ako-hime so much that he is ready to give up his life and flee into the mountains with Ako-hime. While travelling through the mountains, Naoitsu soon faces another betrayal, this time from retainer Sakuramaru, a man Naomitsu once saved from death and took care of like a brother.
But they’re soon attacked by a bandit named Tajomaru (Hiroki Matsukata). After managing to kill Tajomaru, Naomitsu takes the bandit’s identity as his own.
2009 Color 16:9 Widescreen
Japanese With Removable English subtitles
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