The Retired Samurai
Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much less the desire to assert himself and make Iemitsu listen to reason. The plot thickens when a lovely young woman enters the picture. Can she change Hikozaemon's mind, and thus alter the path of Japanese history? No longer a young man, can Hikozaemon gain the shogun's ear, and succeed in warning him of the evil plot to overthrow him?
Directed by Akinori Matsuo · Written by Ichirō Miyagawa
Cast
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Toshirō Mifune Hikozaemon Ōkubo -
Misako Tanaka -
Ryo Tamura -
Shunji Fujimura -
Daijiro Tsutsumi
Make it a double feature
2h 17m together
The Retired Samurai
The Fugitive Samurai
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