Shogun's Samurai (1978)

Original title

柳生一族の陰謀

Directed by

Kinji Fukasaku

Genre

drama film, samurai cinema

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A samurai period piece about clan conspiracies and martial conflict in feudal Japan. The Yagyu family plots for power as swordsmen clash over loyalty and ambition.

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What happens

Shogun's Samurai, known in Japan as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Japanese: 柳生一族の陰謀, Hepburn: Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first of two unrelated Fukasaku films to star Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū, the other being Samurai Reincarnation. The film was adapted into a 39-episode TV series, The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978–1979), and two TV film remakes were released in 2008 and 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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