Hakkenden

Oct 1, 2024

2h 29m

★ 7.4

Overview

Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

War

Production Companies

Kinoshita Group

Kino Films

unfilm

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Cast

Bakin Takizawa

Koji Yakusho

Hokusai Katsushika

Seiyo Uchino

Fusehime

Tao Tsuchiya

Shino Inuzuka

Keisuke Watanabe

Sousuke Inukawa

Jin Suzuki

Keno Inusaka

Rihito Itagaki

Genpachi Inukai

Koshi Mizukami

Daikaku Inumura

Koudai Matsuoka

Kobungo Inuta

So Kaku

Shinbe Inue

Maito Fujioka

Dousetsu Inuyama

Shuhei Uesugi

Tamazusa

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