The Retired SamuraiMovie
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?
About The Retired Samurai
The Retired Samurai is a 1987 drama, history movie directed by Akinori Matsuo.
The production information lists a runtime of 45m, production credits from Japan, an original language code of JA.
The credited cast includes Toshirō Mifune, Misako Tanaka, Ryo Tamura, Shunji Fujimura. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
