After THE HIDDEN BLADE and THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, Yoji Yamada concludes his samurai trilogy with LOVE AND HONOR. This Japanese drama stars Takuya Kimura as a newly blind man who must grapple with the weight of the titular virtues in the country's feudal era. Yamada and his co-screenwriters adapt their film from a story from author Shuuhei Fujisawa.
Theatrical Release: November 2, 2007 (Limited)
DVD Features:
Region [unknown]
Source Writer
Shuuhei Fujisawa: Source Writer, TWILIGHT SAMURAI (2004)
Director of Photography
Matsuo Naganuma: Director of Photography, TWILIGHT SAMURAI (2004)
Review 1:
4 stars out of 5 -- "This is an exquisite study in subtly shifting moods that are reflected by the passing seasons and Kimura's realisation that love is stronger than honour."
Source: Empire
p.68 01/01/2009
Review 2:
"LOVE AND HONOR is that increasing rarity, an impeccably made classic Japanese period picture in which a nobility of spirit is tested amid the most beautiful of settings, revealing the harshness and hypocrisy of a feudal society of the utmost formality and rigidity."
Source: Los Angeles Times
09/05/2008
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