The Samurai I Loved
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A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.
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Matsumoto Kōshirō X
Bunshiro Maki
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Yoshino Kimura
Fuku
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Yonosuke Shimazaki
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Ryo Fukawa
Ippei Kowada
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Mitsuo Kurotsuchi Director · Shuhei Fujisawa Author Taro Iwashiro Composer
United States release August 11, 2009 · Produced in Japan · Production dentsu, Sedic International
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TOHO
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dentsu
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Sedic International
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Geneon Entertainment
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TV Asahi
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Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
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Nagoya Broadcasting Network
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The Asahi Shimbun
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Tokyo ASA Company
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Japan
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Original title
蝉しぐれ
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 1, 2005
Theatrical
United States · August 11, 2009
Physical · DVD
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