SWORD OF DESPERATION

HISSIKEN TORI-SASHI

By Hideyuki HIRAYAMA

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Historical - Completed 2010

The greatest of Shuhei Fujisawa's 'Hidden Blade' series. It is the trick you only use on the verge of death. A True Period Drama, and a True Catharisis.

    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Historical
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 114 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hideyuki HIRAYAMA
    • Writer(s)
    • Hidehiro ITO, Itaru ERA
    • Producer(s)
    • Shinya EGAWA (EXCELLENT FILMS), Shimomura YUTAKA (EXCELLENT FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • In an expert swordsman whose skill bears little relevance to his life is a fateful portrayal of the contradiction and discord in the life of an Edo-period samurai, calmly living out the samurai’s destiny he has been allotted, but with his sword making a modest resistance to that fate, and shaking it at its foundations.
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jul 01, 2010