Snow on The Blades

Snow on The Blades

The last of the bodyguards hunts for the final assassin.

2014 · 120 min · ★ 6.7 · History, Action, Drama

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?

Directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu · Written by Hironobu Takamatsu

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Kiichi Nakai Kingo Shimura
Hiroshi Abe Jyubei Sahashi
Kichiemon Nakamura II Naosuke Ii
Ryoko Hirosue Setsu Shimura
Masahiro Takashima Shinnosuke Naito
Sei Matobu Masa
Eisaku Yoshida Toyoho Takarabe
Youichiro Omi Kakuma Shimura
Yoshikuni Dôchin Shuemon Inaba
Tatsuya Fuji Kazue Akimoto
Hitoshi Nonomura

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