Samurai Cat: The Movie

Mar 1, 2014

1h 40m

★ 6.6

Overview

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught between two warring gangs in an epic battle of cat lovers and dog lovers, he begrudgingly accepts the canine faction's offer to assassinate the opposite leader's beloved pet: an adorable white cat. Yet upon raising his lethal sword, he cannot bring himself to go through with the act, and the cat melts his ronin heart. But before finding peace as a newly minted cat person, the still fearsome Madarame will have to take on both gangs in a classic samurai street brawl.

Genres

Action

Comedy

History

Production Companies

AMG Entertainment

Samurai Cat: The Movie Trailers

Cast

Kyutaro Madarame

Kazuki Kitamura

Ome

Misako Renbutsu

Shinuemon Shimazaki

Yasufumi Terawaki

Shinsuke Zenba

Yōsuke Asari

Saburota Yonezawa

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Shirataki

Yoriko Doguchi

Jinta

Yoichi Nukumizu

Genshichiro Yamada

Kanji Tsuda

Oshizu

Megumi Yokoyama

Tetsugoro

Ryusuke Komakine

Suematsu

Motoki Fukami

Heihachi Aikawa

Yousuke Saito

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