Uzumasa Limelight (2014)
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
Director:
Ken Ochiai
Writer:
Hiroyuki Ono
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Seizō Fukumoto as Seiichi |
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Chihiro Yamamoto as Satsuki iga |
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Hirotaro Honda as Kenichi Naganuma |
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Masashi Goda as Akihiko Kawashima |
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Rantaro Mine as |
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Asahi Kurizuka as |
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Michihiro Kinoshita as |
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Yoshiyuki Shibata as |
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Kazuaki Tai as |
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Boiru Nakajima as |
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Anna Kawashima as |
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Shogen as |
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Shizuka Nakamura as |
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Hidekazu Ichinose as |
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Hana Ebise as |
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Sadao Nakajima as Sadao Nakajima |
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Daisaku Kadokawa as |
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Hisako Manda as Mitsuru Tamura |
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Nenji Kobayashi as |
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Hiroki Matsukata as |
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Ayami Nakamura as |
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Chihiro Tanaka as |
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Honoka Ishibashi as Nao Yamazaki |
| Directing | Ken Ochiai | Director |
| Directing | Yusuke Nakagawa | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Chris Freilich | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Chieko Suzaki | Editor |
| Writing | Hiroyuki Ono | Screenplay |
| Sound | Mototsugu Hayashi | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Takashi Yoshida | Art Direction |
| Sound | Kazuma Jinnouchi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Nobuko Toda | Original Music Composer |
| Lighting | Akio Yamanaka | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Kazuto Kagoo | Decorator |
| Production | Yosuke Mori | Line Producer |
| Production | Hiroyuki Ono | Producer |
| Crew | Dave Boyle | Post Production Supervisor |