Sekigahara (2017)

Original title

関ヶ原

Directed by

Masato Harada

Genre

war film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Ishida Mitsunari in the lead up to and during the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. It shows the political maneuvers and the decisive conflict that ended the Warring States period in Japan.

epichistoricalintenseslow-pacedbattle-focusedpoliticalseriousdramatic

What happens

Sekigahara (Japanese: 関ヶ原) is a 2017 jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Masato Harada starring Junichi Okada as Ishida Mitsunari. The film recounts the Battle of Sekigahara, a six-hour battle in 1600 that brought an end to the Warring States era in Japanese history, as well as the political struggles that led up to it. It is an adaptation of the 1966 novel Sekigahara by Ryōtarō Shiba. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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