L'ultimo samurai

You serve a clan, accepting arranged marriages as facts. But your lord demands your wife returned to him. His request dishonors her, you, your father. Loyalty is a double-edged sword. Kobayashi offers a deeply humanistic counterpoint to more romanticized samurai pictures. The film lingers on the faces of men pushed to their limits.

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Masaki Kobayashi directed L'ultimo samurai in 1967. See Masaki Kobayashi's full filmography, where to start with Masaki Kobayashi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Masaki Kobayashi.

L'ultimo samurai was released in 1967 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 121 minutes.