Takuya Kimura in Bushi no Ichibun

High Moon: The Japanese Western

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Bushi no ichibun: (Love and Honor)

Director: Yôji Yamada

Cast: Takuya Kimura, Rei Dan, Mitsugoro Bando, Takashi Sasano, Kaori Momoi, Nenji Kobayashi, Ken Ogata

(Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo, 2006) Rated: Unrated

[4 October 2007]

by tjmHolden

ReDotPop’s version of the western, the re-emerging samurai genre, serves as moral compass, as spiritual guide at a time when it is needed most.

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