A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight (2019)

TV Movie

This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology. While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are struggling with the high-tech equipment, their skills at creating choreographed sword battles are undiminished. The NHK project will dramatize the Ikedaya incident, which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate. A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360° one-cut scene involving the world’s most advanced high-speed camera and wire action for a scene where Kondo Isami will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya. Can they succeed in filming the single greatest swordfight scene in samurai movie history?!?

Director: Takashi Minamoto

Casts

	Seiyo Uchino as
	Tasuku Emoto as
	Shido Nakamura as
	Miki Mizuno as
	Takahiro Fujimoto as
	Akira Hamada as
	Mitsuo Sagawa as
	Hirotaro Honda as
	Masatô Ibu as
	Renji Ishibashi as
	Kōtarō Satomi as
	Seizō Fukumoto as

Crew