| A Samurai Chronicle | |
| Director: | Takashi Koizumi |
| Starring: | Kōji Yakusho Junichi Okada Maki Horikita Mieko Harada |
| Music: | Takashi Kako |
| Runtime: | 129 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 2014 Japanese film directed by Takashi Koizumi.
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. A squire is sent by the prime minister of Japan to keep watch over him.[1]
Teruyo Nogami, who was a longtime assistant of Akira Kurosawa, worked as a special adviser on the film, and joined the director and star for a question and answer session about the film.[1]
The film was based on an award-winning novel by Rin Hamuro.[1]
Koizumi claimed that he did not want to send any political messages with the film and instead intended to portray the real life events as accurately as possible.[1]
The film debuted at number two in the Japanese box office[2] and grossed a total of $8,804,424 in Japan.[3]
The Japan Times awarded the film a score of five out of ten, saying that the film failed to invoke the film of Akira Kurosawa that it was influenced by. [Though Koizumi and his veteran staff try to channel that sensibility, they are not Kurosawa, and though “A Samurai Chronicle” echoes the master’s work, it lacks his vivifying presence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/01/films/film-reviews/death-row-samurai-spills-ink-blood/|title=Death-row samurai spills ink, not blood|work=The Japan Times|date=October 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External lists== *http://www.thefilmcatalogue.com/catalog/FilmDetail.php?id=17808 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223205355/http://www.thefilmcatalogue.com/catalog/FilmDetail.php?id=17808 |date=2014-12-23 }} * {{IMDb title|2770290}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Samurai Chronicle}} [[Category:2014 films]]