Snow on The Blades (2014)
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
Director:
Setsuro Wakamatsu
Writers:
Hironobu Takamatsu, Yasuo Hasegawa, Kenzaburô Iida.
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Kiichi Nakai as Kingo Shimura |
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Hiroshi Abe as Jyubei Sahashi |
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Kichiemon Nakamura II as Naosuke Ii |
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Hirosue Ryoko as Setsu Shimura |
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Masahiro Takashima as Shinnosuke Naito |
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Sei Matobu as Masa |
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Eisaku Yoshida as Toyoho Takarabe |
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Youichiro Omi as Kakuma Shimura |
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Yoshikuni Dôchin as Shuemon Inaba |
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Tatsuya Fuji as Kazue Akimoto |
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Hitoshi Nonomura as |
| Writing | Hironobu Takamatsu | Screenplay |
| Production | Shohei Kotaki | Producer |
| Directing | Setsuro Wakamatsu | Director |
| Writing | Yasuo Hasegawa | Screenplay |
| Sound | Joe Hisaishi | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Fumio Ogawa | Production Design |
| Writing | Jiro Asada | Short Story |
| Camera | Tokushō Kikumura | Director of Photography |
| Production | Masamitsu Haga | Producer |
| Production | Hikaru Tani | Producer |
| Production | Yoshihiro Kato | Producer |
| Writing | Kenzaburô Iida | Screenplay |
| Production | Yumiko Takebe | Producer |
| Production | Manabu Inoue | Producer |
| Production | Kanjiro Sakura | Producer |
| Editing | Hirohide Abe | Editor |
| Sound | Osamu Onodera | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Hideshi Nakagomi | Decorator |
