Post by philmarlowe on Jul 24, 2006 4:29:33 GMT -5
Sono Ri-gu Kumori [The League of Shadows]
Time: 132 minutes
Release Date: Oct. 6th
Genre: Foreign/Action
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Masato Harada, Yun-Fat Chow, Jet Li, Randall Duk Kim, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Ling Bai
Director: Masato Harada
Plot: A master Samurai, Kambei Shimada, (Watanabe) has cut his hair and completely given up his role as a Samurai following the westernization of Japan. He goes off into the mountains and lives as a hermit. Meanwhile, a businessman, Katsushiro Okamoto, (Chow) takes a hike out in the mountains and is lost. He nearly dies from exhaustion and dehydration, but is found by Kambei. He is nursed back to health by Kambei. As he regains his strength, Katsushiro is greatly taken by the quaint and perfect life Kambei seems to live in the mountains by himself. Upon discovering from Kambei that he is a Samurai, Katsushiro asked to be trained by Kambei. He refuses and takes Katsushiro back to his home in the big city of Tokyo. As he travels through the city for the first time in ten years, Kambei is shocked by the corruption and filth of the city. He vows to fix it and begins drawing men with the desire to right the wrong of the city to himself. He takes them all away for a year of training at his home up on the mountain. Upon becoming adept at the art of being a Samurai, they build up the formally small house into a huge base for their operations to protect the nation from itself. It is the beginning of new age of Samurai who are still out to accomplish the same goal, but they are no longer doing it the obvious way. They set out as The League of Shadows to once again protect their nation from evil.
Includes much violence such as severed hands and other appendages.
Screenwriters: Masato Harada, and Shimako Iwai
Producers: Yasunori Aoki, and Miyako Sonoki
Composer: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Budget: $12 mil.
Target Theaters: 1,272 wide (subtitles)
Time: 132 minutes
Release Date: Oct. 6th
Genre: Foreign/Action
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Masato Harada, Yun-Fat Chow, Jet Li, Randall Duk Kim, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Ling Bai
Director: Masato Harada
Plot: A master Samurai, Kambei Shimada, (Watanabe) has cut his hair and completely given up his role as a Samurai following the westernization of Japan. He goes off into the mountains and lives as a hermit. Meanwhile, a businessman, Katsushiro Okamoto, (Chow) takes a hike out in the mountains and is lost. He nearly dies from exhaustion and dehydration, but is found by Kambei. He is nursed back to health by Kambei. As he regains his strength, Katsushiro is greatly taken by the quaint and perfect life Kambei seems to live in the mountains by himself. Upon discovering from Kambei that he is a Samurai, Katsushiro asked to be trained by Kambei. He refuses and takes Katsushiro back to his home in the big city of Tokyo. As he travels through the city for the first time in ten years, Kambei is shocked by the corruption and filth of the city. He vows to fix it and begins drawing men with the desire to right the wrong of the city to himself. He takes them all away for a year of training at his home up on the mountain. Upon becoming adept at the art of being a Samurai, they build up the formally small house into a huge base for their operations to protect the nation from itself. It is the beginning of new age of Samurai who are still out to accomplish the same goal, but they are no longer doing it the obvious way. They set out as The League of Shadows to once again protect their nation from evil.
Includes much violence such as severed hands and other appendages.
Screenwriters: Masato Harada, and Shimako Iwai
Producers: Yasunori Aoki, and Miyako Sonoki
Composer: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Budget: $12 mil.
Target Theaters: 1,272 wide (subtitles)