Naoki Kobayashi, Shun Sugata, Denden, Masahiko Tsugawa, Akira, Kosuke Toyohara, Katsuo Nakamura, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Tomoko Tabata, Anna Ishii, Takashi Sasano, Taichi Saotome, Masahiro Koumoto, Sho Aoyagi, Kei Yamamoto
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.
A young man heeds the call of adventure in Yoshinari Nishikori's Tatara Samurai, leaving his idyllic village to become a soldier. He soon has second thoughts — but violence is coming his way, like it or not, in a movie that sometimes echoes its hero's ambivalence by toying with viewers' expectations of swordslinger cinema. Genre fans should respect the picture if not embrace it wholeheartedly, but...