Details

Release year: 2002

Storyline

A samurai goes to extraordinary lengths to provide for his family.

Top credits

Directors

Yôjirô Takita

Writers

Cast

Kiichi Nakai — Kanichiro Yoshimura
Kôichi Satô — Hajime Saitô
Yui Natsukawa — Shizu, Mitsu
Takehiro Murata — Chiaki Ono

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Did you know

• The title "Mibu gishi den" literally means "Story of the Righteous Samurai of Mibu," and alludes to the "Ako gishi," better known in the West as the 47 Ronin.

• The character Yoshimura Kanichiro is from the north of Japan (around the present day Iwate prefecture). Thus he speaks with a strong accent.

• The Shinsengumi were a group of swordsmen employed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The group was created during the crisis period of the late Edo period when some groups in Japan wanted to overthrow the shogunate and return the emperor to a more central position. The Shinsengumi's initial name was "Ronin of Mibu" from which the title of the film was derived. Mibu happens to be a town where the group was formed.