Trailer - Goemon
The full trailer for Kazuaki Kiriya‘s Goemon is now out, and in keeping with Kiriya’s last film, Casshern, it’s completely rife with CGI-aided epicness and dramatic posing. The film centers around the legendary ninja bandit Ishikawa Goemon, who has been the subject of countless works of fiction since the real guy was allegedly boiled alive in 1594 for attempting to assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
In 1582 Oda Nobunaga was on the verge of conquering all of Japan, but was forced to commit suicide at Honno-ji Temple by one of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Nobunaga’s top general, overthrew Akechi a few days later and completed Nobunaga’s dream of unifying Japan under one ruler. The world was at peace for a time, but soon a ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) appeared, using his super-human abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor—a habit which cemented his reputation as a hero to commoners everywhere. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers, it isn’t long before Ishida Mitsunari, Kirigakure Saizo, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Hattori Hanzo are all in persuit of the box for their own purposes.
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...first thoughts were that it somehow looks like “sin city” etc…