Abacus and Sword (2010)

武士の家計簿 Bushi no Kakeibo

Abacus and Sword is a Japanese movie directed by Yoshimitsu Morita and written by Michio Kashiwada. Distributor Shochiku released it in Ishikawa prefecture on November 27, 2010 and the rest of Japan on December 4, 2010.

The film 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.

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Masato Sakai
Yukie Nakama
Ichirota Miyagawa
Kaito Oyagi
Keiko Matsuzaka
Kyusaku Shimada
Masahiko Nishimura
Masatoshi Nakamura
Mina Fujii
Mitsuko Kusabue
Sengoro Shigeyama
Shigemitsu Ogi
Yuki Ito

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Trailer for Yoshimitsu Morita's "Abacus and Sword"

Here’s the new trailer for Yoshimitsu Morita’s Meiji Restoration-set drama Abacus and Sword. It was previously going by the tentative English title “Samurai Book-keeper” but according to Shochiku, it is now called “Abacus and Sword”. I suppose that title is less inviting of snarky insults from English speakers, but not…
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Teaser for "Abacus and Sword" (Bushi no Kakeibo) [English-subtitled]

Shochiku’s English-language website has been updated with a new subtitled teaser for Yoshimitsu Morita’s Abacus and Sword. The film is based on the diary of an unnamed accountant who worked for the Kaga Clan around the time of the Meiji Restoration, a series of major events which marked the end…
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