CinemaOSMovie · 1995 · 1h 34m

The Abe Clan

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A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.

Directed byKinji Fukasaku

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 34m
Language
JA
Released
November 24, 1995
Studios
Shochiku

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阿部一族 1995

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Featuring

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10 credited
Starring
Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Abe Yaich'emon

Koichi Sato

Koichi Sato

Abe Yagobei

Mariko Fuji

Mariko Fuji

O'ichi

Keizo Kanie

Keizo Kanie

Abe Gonbei

Yumi Aso

Yumi Aso

Tae

Renji Ishibashi

Renji Ishibashi

Hayashi Geki

Noboru Nakaya

Noboru Nakaya

Hosokawa Tadatoshi

Hiroyuki Sanada

Hiroyuki Sanada

Emoto Matashichiro

Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

Takeuchi Kazuma

Misako Watanabe

Misako Watanabe

Kinu

Creative team
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku
Written by
Motomu Furuta
Produced by
Seichi Ichiko

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