Film

The Lowly Ronin: Hanayama Daikichi

1995 · 1h 35m · Drama · Action · Comedy

Low-caste former samurai Hanayama Daikichi and his gambler friend Hanji of Yaizu, come to a once peaceful post town of Kofu. A town now filled with gamblers, prostitutes, and unscrupulous opportunists, all drawn by the smell of blood and the scent of newly-mined gold. Daikichi brings a little girl whose father has been butchered by yakuza assassins, hoping to find her family. Intrigue and violence follow the group as they must ward off a deadly female spy and a mysterious ronin with a violent past. Tension mounts as all these forces come together to unravel a secret which will unleash a wave of violence that could destroy them all.

Hiroki Matsukata

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Natsuki Okamoto

Toshihiko Tahara

Kazue Itō

Tokuma Nishioka

Mayumi Yoshino

Akira Hamada

Seiichirō Kameishi

Takashi Noguchi

Masataka Iwao

Takeshi Iba

Tadao Kawamoto

須賀章

Yûya Takayama

Yoshihiro Igarashi

• Tōru MurakawaDirector
• Seiko ShimuraScreenplay

Release date

April 1, 1995

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Drama, Action, Comedy, History