The Last Ronin

Overview

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.

Directed by Shigemichi Sugita

Top cast

Koji Yakusho

Magozaemon Senoo

Koichi Sato

Kichiemon Terasaka

Takao Kataoka

Ōishi Yoshio

Hitomi Miyauchi

Kane

Koji Yamamoto

Shuichiro

Jun Fubuki

Kiwa

Kunie Tanaka

Okuno Shōgen

Masatô Ibu

Shindo Nagayasu

Yoshi Oida

Chaya Shirōjirō

Narumi Yasuda

Yu

Seizō Fukumoto

Kira Yoshinaka

Kitamura Sara

Young Kane

Toshio Shiba

Tsukioka Jiemon

M

Masakazu Serizawa

Mitsuo Sagawa

Takeo Tabata

T

Tadashi Shibamoto

N

Noriko Suzukawa

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