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Sekigahara: Directed by Masato Harada. With Jun'ichi Okada, Kôji Yakusho, Kasumi Arimura, Takehiro Hira. A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
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- Drama, History, War
- Masato Harada
- 2017-08-26
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]
His top lieutenant, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a common-born bumpkin, continued where his lord left off. With his death, a power struggle ensued for control of his Toyotomi's young son, with the richest, most powerful lord in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda…
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. NEW. One of the bloodiest battles in Japanese history plays out in a single day at Sekigahara, with the deaths of 30,000 people.
- History, Drama, War
Jul 1, 2018 · The Battle of Sekigahara is one of the anchor points of early modern Japanese history. Depicted in novels, manga, films, and even video games, it was the decisive 6-hour battle that preceded the Tokugawa shogunate, the last feudal Japanese military government that lasted 260 years.
Masato Harada. 2017. Japanese with English subtitles. 149 minutes. Q&A with director Masato Harada, who will receive the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award. This sweeping epic delves into Japanese history’s bloodiest battle, fought on a single day in 1600, with losses of 30,000 people.
