Kanei Chronicles (1991)
From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!
- Released
- 1991-07-19
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama, History, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 165 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kōsei Saitō, Satoshi Kurumi, Ei Ogawa
Cast
- Kōtarō Satomi as Izunokami Nobutsuna Matsudaira
- Takaaki Enoki as Chuya Marubashi
- Yumi Takigawa as Sawa
- Misa Shimizu as Princess Kichi
- Jun Miho as Yae
- Shōhei Hino as Karasu no Jinnai
- Renji Ishibashi as Genyusai Negoro
- Kazunaga Tsuji as Hanzo Hattori
- Tappei Shimokawa as Kokuseki Yamazaki
- Katsumi Oyama as Shinzaemon Suetsugu
- Masao Imafuku as Hikozaemon Okubo
- Morio Kazama as Suruga Dainagon Tadanaga
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