A Samurai Chronicle

• Kōji Yakusho as Shūkoku Toda
• Junichi Okada as Shōzaburō Dan'no
• Maki Horikita as Kaoru Toda
• Mieko Harada as Orie Toda
• Shinobu Terajima
• Hisashi Igawa
• Kenichi Yajima

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. A squire is sent by the prime minister of Japan to keep watch over him.[1]

Teruyo Nogami, who was a longtime assistant of Akira Kurosawa, worked as a special adviser on the film, and joined the director and star for a question and answer session about the film.[1]

The film was based on an award-winning novel by Rin Hamuro.[1]

Koizumi claimed that he did not want to send any political messages with the film and instead intended to portray the real life events as accurately as possible.[1]

The film debuted at number two in the Japanese box office[2] and grossed a total of $8,804,424 in Japan.[3]

The Japan Times awarded the film a score of five out of ten, saying that the film failed to invoke the film of Akira Kurosawa that it was influenced by. [Though Koizumi and his veteran staff try to channel that sensibility, they are not Kurosawa, and though “A Samurai Chronicle” echoes the master’s work, it lacks his vivifying presence.[4]

• http://www.thefilmcatalogue.com/catalog/FilmDetail.php?id=17808 Archived 2014-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
• A Samurai Chronicle at IMDb