Samurai Hustle

The Edo period gets a slapstick makeover as a resource-starved daimyo scrambles to meet an impossible shogunal deadline. Three days of frantic improvisation later the province still hasn’t left the yard. A cheerful reminder that even samurai sometimes need to learn the art of the hustle.

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Katsuhide Motoki directed Samurai Hustle in 2014. See Katsuhide Motoki's full filmography, where to start with Katsuhide Motoki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Katsuhide Motoki.

Samurai Hustle was released in 2014 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 119 minutes.