Teaser - Tajomaru

Here’s the first teaser for Hiroyuki Nakano’s Tajomaru, a 2009 film based on the 1922 short story “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which recounted a single event from 7 different perspectives after the fact. The story is probably best known for being the basis for Akira Kurosawa’s award-winning 1950 film, Rashomon, but instead of being a remake, this version creates an entirely new backstory for the bandit character, Tajomaru.

In the film, Shun Oguri plays Naomitsu, the second son of the Hatakeyama family and fiance of Princess Ako (Yuki Shibamoto) who gets chased away from his home as the result of a conspiracy against him. Naomitsu flees into the mountains with Ako, but they’re soon attacked by a bandit named Tajomaru (Hiroki Matsukata). After managing to kill Tajomaru, Naomitsu takes the bandit’s identity as his own.

Source: Yahoo! Japan Movies