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A SAMURAI IN TIME

侍タイムスリッパー

By Junichi YASUDA

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Comedy - Completed 2024

A time-travel comedy about a samurai from the Edo Period who gets hit by lightning, wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Comedy, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 131 mn
- Director(s)
- Junichi YASUDA
- Writer(s)
- Junichi YASUDA
- Cast
- Makiya YAMAGUCHI , Norimasa FUKE , Yuno SAKURA
- Synopsis
- At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, during a stormy night a samurai prepares to fight against a ronin, when a flash of lighting hits and when he wakes up to find himself in a different time. He has been transported through time to the present day and the location where he was about to duel is now a film set for jidaigeki TV shows and movies. Still in his samurai clothes he is mistaken for an extra and immediately thrust into the world of jidaigeki productions. Due to his very ‘authentic’ look and speech, he starts working on many productions and finds himself playing the role of a “kirareyaku”, a swordsman whose job is to die spectacularly on film.