May 20, 2017
135 min
Full-HD

Tatara Samurai (2017)

In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.

Category

Action Comedy Drama History War

Country

Japan

Companies

Lawson AOI Pro. avex pictures The Asahi Shimbun GMO Internet Group AOYAMA TRADING LDH JAPAN

Naoki Kobayashi

Shun Sugata

Sakichi

Denden

Genzo

Masahiko Tsugawa

Yohei

Ryohei Kurosawa

Shinnosuke Amago

Kosuke Toyohara

Heijiro

Katsuo Nakamura

Muneyoshi

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Yae

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