Movie
Love and Honor
Overview
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-12-01
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shochiku, TV Asahi, Sumitomo Corporation, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Nippan Group Holdings, J-dream, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Tokyo FM, Yahoo! Japan, MAGAZINE HOUSE, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Shochiku Music Publishing
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Takuya Kimura as Shinnojo Mimura
- Rei Dan as Kayo Mimura
- Takashi Sasano as Tokuhei
- Kaori Momoi as Ine Hatano
- Nenji Kobayashi as Sakunosuke Higuchi
- Ken Ogata as Magohachiro Kibe
- Bandō Mitsugorō X as Toya Shimada
- Makoto Akatsuka
- Toshiki Ayata
- Koen Kondo
- Nobuto Okamoto
- Tokie Hidari
Crew
- Yoji Yamada - Director
- Ichiro Yamamoto - Screenplay
- Yoji Yamada - Screenplay
- Emiko Hiramatsu - Screenplay
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