Episode #32 – Unforgiven (許されざる者)
Unforgiven (2013)
許されざる者 [Yurusarezaru-Mono]
Directed by Sang-il Lee
Written by Sang-il Lee
Based on the screenplay by David Webb Peoples
Just as Clint Eastwood’s star-making spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee has decided to reinterpret Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubei Kamata lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubei is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.
Cast
Ken Watanabe – Jubei Kamata
Koichi Sato – Ichizo Oishi
Akira Emoto – Kingo Baba
Yuya Yagira – Goro Sawada
Shiori Kutsuna – Natsume
Eiko Koike – Okaji
Jun Kunimura – Masaharu Kitaoji
Kenichi Takitoh – Yasaburo Himeji
Yukiyoshi Ozawa – Sanosuke Hotta
Takahiro Miura – Unosuke Hotta
