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Aug 19, 2017 · by Karen Severns August 19, 2017. The battle of Samurai that defined Japan's future. Photo: 2017 “Sekigahara” Film Partners All Rights.
- Karen Severns
The battle has never been depicted in its entirety on screen, however, until Masato Harada tackled it for his new epic "Sekigahara," based on Ryotaro Shiba's classic three-volume historical...
Sekigahara (関ヶ原) is a 2017 jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Masato Harada starring Junichi Okada as Ishida Mitsunari. [2] The film recounts the Battle of Sekigahara, a six-hour battle in 1600 that brought an end to the Warring States era in Japanese history, as well as the political struggles that led up to it. [3]
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Aug 27, 2015 · The film looks at the final moments of World War II from the perspective of the highest echelons of Japanese society―the ministers of war, the generals, and the admirals who sent troops to fight and die, and the spiritual leader of the nation, Emperor Hirohito.
Masato Harada (原田 眞人, Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949) is a Japanese film director, film critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.
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Jul 1, 2018 · 2017 | Japan | DIRECTOR: Masato Harada | WRITERS: Based on a novel by Ryōtarō Shiba | CAST: Junichi Okada, Kasumi Arimura, Takehiro Hira, Masahiro Higashide, Kōji Yakusho | DISTRIBUTOR: Toho, Asmik Ace, New York Asian Film Festival (US) | RUNNING TIME: 150 minutes | RELEASE DATE: 30 June 2018 (NYAFF)
