Samurai Marathon (2019)

Original title

サムライマラソン

Directed by

Bernard Rose

Genre

historical film

Country

United Kingdom, Japan

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

15

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 19th century Japan, a feudal lord forces his samurai retainers to run a marathon as a test of their skills. The event sparks a race that becomes a fight for survival and honor.

historicaladventurousbrisk-paceddetermineddramaticcharacter-driven

What happens

Samurai Marathon (Japanese: サムライマラソン, Hepburn: Samurai Marason) is a 2019 Japanese-British historical action adventure film co-written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu and Mirai Moriyama. It is based on the 2014 novel The Marathon Samurai: Five Tales of Japan’s First Marathon by Akihiro Dobashi, itself inspired by the origin story of the Ansei Toashi 30-km footrace held annually in Annaka City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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