Based on series of short stories by Shuhei Fujisawa. His stories take partings and reunions of common people and subordinate warriors as their theme. Fujisawa takes the imaginary Hirasaka clan as the stage and depicts a series of warrior images with distinctive personalities. [analysis]
Set in Japan during final years of the Edo period (Bakumatsu, Meiji Restoration) the same period as Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" and Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai". Films deal in different ways with a time when samurai still tried to live by the Code of Bushido. Even as they faced poverty & unemployment in a rapidly changing society and the shift of political power from shogunate clans to the Imperial court of Japan.
Set in Japan during final years of the Edo period (Bakumatsu, Meiji Restoration) the same period as Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" and Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai". Films deal in different ways with a time when samurai still tried to live by the Code of Bushido. Even as they faced poverty & unemployment in a rapidly changing society and the shift of political power from shogunate clans to the Imperial court of Japan.
