The Samurai That Night

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Movie: The Samurai That Night (English title)
Romaji: Sono Yoru no Samurai
Japanese: その夜の侍
Director: Masaaki Akahori
Assistant Director: Katsuhito Mogi
Writer: Masaaki Akahori
Producer: Keiko Fujimura, Keisuke Konishi, Hirohumi Shigemura, Hiromitsu Sugita, Yuji Hiratai
Cinematographer: Yuta Tsukinaga
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Runtime: 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Suspense-Thriller / Crime / Award Winning
Distributor: Phantom Film
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Kenichi Nakamura (Masato Sakai) runs a small ironworks, but since he lost his wife (Maki Sakai) in a hit and run car accident 5 years ago his life has become mundane. Meanwhile, Kijima (Takayuki Yamada), who committed the hit and run accident, finishes his prison term and is released from prison. As time passes, a threatening letter arrives for Kijima. People around Kenichi try to stop him, but on the anniversary of his wife's death these two people meet to confront each other.

Notes

Filming took place from September 28 - October, 2011.

Cast



Masato Sakai	Takayuki Yamada	Hirofumi Arai	Go Ayano	Maki Sakai
Kenichi Nakamura	Hiroshi Kijima	Junichi Aoki	Hideaki Kobayashi	Hisako Nakamura



Tomorowo Taguchi	Mitsuki Tanimura	Tsutomu Takahashi	Kinuwo Yamada	Sakura Ando
Nobuo Hoshi	Yumiko Seki	Kohei Kubo	Sachiko Kawamura	Mika

Additional Cast Members:

Haruka Kinami - Akiko Kobayashi
Denden - Susumu Sato
Rie Minemura - snack bar owner
Katsuya Kobayashi - old man at snack bar
Daisuke Kuroda - Taniminoru
Noboru Mitani - old man selling poem collection

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Film Festivals

2012 (36th) Montreal World Film Festival - August 23-September 3, 2012 - First Films World Competition
2012 (56th) BFI London Film Festival - October 10-21, 2012 - First Feature Competition
2013 (7th) JAPAN CUTS - July 11-21, 2013

Awards

2012 (37th) Hochi Film Awards - December, 2012
- Best Supporting Actress (Sakura Ando)

Comments

2324 Jun 11 2013 2:17 am Im a fan of yamada takayuki.... think he's the best young japanese actor..tremendous international potential....Very intense actor here...But im sure no one will sub this..

Carole McDonnell Jun 03 2013 11:21 am A slow, realistic movie about someone emotionally imploding. Masato Sakai is one of my favorite actors, which only makes the film even better for me. If you don't like slow movies, it's not for you. But the tension and the human hurt and woundedness is palpable. When the film began i was prepared to like the bd guy but nah..bad guy is pretty much creepy.

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