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Samurai Fiction (SF サムライ・フィクション, Esu Efu Samurai Fikushon) is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the works of Akira Kurosawa. A loose spinoff was released in 2001, as Red Shadow.
Original Release
08/01/1998
US Release
10/27/1998
Cast
Name | Character |
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Morio Kazama | Hanbei Mizoguchi |
Mitsuru Fukikoshi | Heishiro Inukai |
Tomoyasu Hotei | Rannosuke Kazamatsuri |
Tamaki Ogawa | Koharu Mizoguchi |
Mari Natsuki | Okatsu |
Taketoshi Naitô | Kanzen Inukai |
Kei Tani | Kagemaru |
Fumiya Fujii | Ryunosuke Kuzumi |
Naoyuki Fujii | Shintarô Suzuki |
Ken Ohsawa | Tadasuke Kurosawa |
Directors
Writers
Hiroyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Saitô
Cast
Name | Character |
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Morio Kazama | Hanbei Mizoguchi |
Mitsuru Fukikoshi | Heishiro Inukai |
Tomoyasu Hotei | Rannosuke Kazamatsuri |
Tamaki Ogawa | Koharu Mizoguchi |
Mari Natsuki | Okatsu |
Taketoshi Naitô | Kanzen Inukai |
Kei Tani | Kagemaru |
Fumiya Fujii | Ryunosuke Kuzumi |
Naoyuki Fujii | Shintarô Suzuki |
Ken Ohsawa | Tadasuke Kurosawa |
Hiroshi Kanbe | Gosuke |
Ryôichi Yuki | Ninja Hayabusa |
Akiko Monô | Ninja Akakage |
Taro Maruse | Sakyounosuke Kajii |
Ramo Nakajima | Denbei Kimura |
Ryo Iwamatsu | Muroto |
Pierre Taki | Bad Ronin Juzo Araki |
Diamond Yukai | Onimatsu |
Utaroku Miyakoya | Kuma-san |
Yoshiaki Umegaki | Rascal Baba |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Mitsuru Itô | Executive Producer |
Hiroto Kimura | Producer |
Tsuyoshi Takashiro | Producer |