Masato Sakai and Yukie Nakama will be co-starring together for the first time in Yoshimitsu Morita‘s Bushi no Kakeibo (Samurai Book-Keeper), an adaptation of a jidaigeki novel by history scholar Michifumi Isoda. The sceenplay was adapted by Michio Kashiwada (Goth).

The story is based on a real diary describing the life of a 3rd-generation samurai household during the late Edo period, in the midst of the Meiji Restoration which marked the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Sakai will play Hachidaime Naoyuki, an accountant within the once-powerful Kaga Domain. At any other time, his position in society would have brought him great wealth, but Hachidaime and his wife (Nakama) are now forced to live frugally as their social status deteriorates along with Japan’s feudal system. Through all their hardships, Hachidaime maintains his integrity and his wife makes do with what little they have left to make their home life as happy as possible.

“Bushi no Kakeibo” will be jointly distributed by Shochiku and Asmik Ace Entertainment and will be released nationwide in Japan next year.

Sources: Eiga.com | @tokyograph

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