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Shinsengumi chronicles I want to die a samurai
Title
Shinsengumi chronicles [videorecording] : I want to die a samurai / screenplay by Seiji Hoshikawa ; directed by Kenji Misumi.
ISBN
1565675495
9781565675490
Published
Wilmington, NC : Animeigo, 2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from container.
Features: image gallery, cast & crew biographies, program notes, theatrical trailers.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Based on the novel by Kan Shimosawa.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Summary
Set in nineteenth-century Japan, an honest farmer joins the Shinsengumi, a band of samurai loyal to the shogunate, encountering political conspiracies and intrigue.
Variant and related titles
I want to die a samurai
Shinsengumi shimatsuki
Shinsengumi shimatsuki (Motion picture)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
December 08, 2011
Cast
Raizō Ichikawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Shigeru Amachi, Shiho Fujimura.
System details note
DVD; anamorphic widescreen; DVD-9.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
ANM-DV-1459 Animeigo
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films - Japan.
Martial arts films.
Historical films.
Samurai films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
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