A Samurai Chronicle
A Samurai Chronicle is a 2014 Japanese film.
Plot
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. As squire is sent by the prime misiter of Japan to keep watch over him.[1]
Development
Teruyo Nogami, who was a longtime assistant of Akira Kurosawa, worked as a special adviser on the film, and jointed the director and star for a question and answer session about the film.[2]
The film was based on an award winning novel by Rin Hamuro.[http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/film-screenings/movie-committee-blog/item/464-chronicle/464-chronicle.html
Koizumi claimed that he did not want to send any political messages with the film and instead intended to portray the real life events as accurately as possible.[3]
Reception
The film debuted at number two in the Japanese box office [4] and grossed a total of $8,804,424 in Japan.[5]
The Japanese Times awarded the film a score of five out of ten, saying that the film failed to invoke the film of Akira Kurosawa that it was influenced by. [Though Koizumi and his veteran staff try to channel that sensibility, they are not Kurosawa, and though “A Samurai Chronicle” echoes the master’s work, it lacks his vivifying presence.[6]