Snow on The Blades
The last of the bodyguards hunts for the final assassin.
6.7(15) 2014-09-20 120 minHistoryActionDrama
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
ScreenplayHironobu Takamatsu
ProducerShohei Kotaki
DirectorSetsuro Wakamatsu
ScreenplayYasuo Hasegawa
Original Music ComposerJoe Hisaishi
ProducerMasamitsu Haga
ProducerHikaru Tani
ProducerYoshihiro Kato
Cast & characters
Kiichi Nakai
as Kingo Shimura
Hiroshi Abe
as Jyubei Sahashi
Kichiemon Nakamura II
as Naosuke Ii
Hirosue Ryoko
as Setsu Shimura
Masahiro Takashima
as Shinnosuke Naito
Sei Matobu
as Masa
Eisaku Yoshida
as Toyoho Takarabe
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Youichiro Omi
as Kakuma Shimura
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Yoshikuni Dôchin
as Shuemon Inaba
Tatsuya Fuji
as Kazue Akimoto
Hitoshi Nonomura
as —
