Tajuro junaiki
Love's Twisting Path
- Release Date
- April, 12th, 2019
- Running Time
- 90 min
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DCP
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English (DCP)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- KORA Kengo ── KIYOKAWA Tajuro
- TABE Mikako ── Otoyo
[ Staff ]
- NAKAJIMA Sadao ── Screenplay
- TANI Keiko ── Screenplay
- KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi ── Assistant director
- ASAKURA Yoshihito ── Cinematography
- KURIYAMA Kazuki ── Music
[ Production Company ]
'Love's Twisting Path' Film Partners
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
TOEI, Yoshimoto Creative Agency
[ Story ]
Veteran director Nakajima Sadao, known for the 'Kogarashi Monjiro' series and A Savage Beast Goes Mad, helms this samurai period film set at the end of the Edo era. Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, director of My Man, serves as assistant director.
In order to evade the debt left by his parents, ronin Kiyokawa Tajuro arrives in Kyoto upon leaving the Choshu domain. One day, Tajuro is assailed by the Kyoto Patrol which received information from an undercover detective. Tajuro stakes his life in a fight to protect the proprietress of a small restaurant, Otoyo (Tabe Mikako), and others who showed him kindness.
[ Official Site ]
https://tajurou.official-movie.com
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2019 Beijing International Film Festival
2019 Shanghai International Film Festival, NIPPON EXPRESS
2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Perspectives The Tyger Burns
[ Contact (International) ]
Free Stone Productions Co., Ltd.
International Sales
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