Trailer - Tajomaru
Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 3:37pm on Sunday, July 5, 2009
Filed under: Drama, Jidaigeki, Future releases, Trailer Updates
Here’s the full trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano‘s “Tajomaru”, a new 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. Akira Kurosawa‘s award-winning 1950 film Rashomon was also based on In a Grove, but this version changes things up by focusing on the bandit character Tajomaru and giving him a whole new back-story. Yeah, it’s a pretty bizarre idea, but at the risk of being forced to turn in my Japanese cinema fan card, I don’t really get what the big deal is with Rashomon anyway.
Plot: Naomitsu (Shun Oguri) is the second son of the Hatakeyama family and fiance of Princess Ako (Yuki Shibamoto). When he gets chased away from his home as the result of a conspiracy against him, Naomitsu flees into the mountains with Ako in tow, 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.
Tajomaru will be released in Japan this September.
Thanks to logboy for catching the update on the official website.
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Comments
heh it seems the song that plays before the B’Z song is from the lead singer of Linkin Park.
http://www.cbennington.com/2009/07/dead-by-sunrise-song-featured-in.html
anything new and exciting in the world of japanese film, kevin?