Satomi hakken-den (1983)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Kinji Fukasaku

Writers:

Kinji Fukasaku (writer)
Toshio Kamata (writer)

Release Date:

10 December 1983 (Japan)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy | Action | Drama

Plot:

Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

Plot Keywords:

Princess | Blood | Samurai | Undead | Castle

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Hiroko Yakushimaru	...	Princess Shizu
Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Inue Shinbei Masashi
Sonny Chiba	...	Inuyama Dosetsu Tadatomo
Etsuko Shihomi	...	Inusaka Keno Tanetomo
Yuki Meguro	...	Hikita Gonnokami Motofuji
Mari Natsuki	...	Tamazusa
Nana Okada	...	Hamaji
Masaki Kyomoto	...	Inuzuka Shino Moritaka
Kenji Ohba	...	Inukai Genpachi Nobufuchi
Nagare Hagiwara	...	Yonosuke
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takuya Fukuhara	...	Inukawa Sosuke Yoshito
Seizo Fukumoto
Akira Hamada	...	Akushiro
Shunsuke Kariya	...	Inuta Kobungo Yasuyori
Keiko Matsuzaka	...	Princess Fuse (voice)
Mikio Narita
Tadashi Naruse
Akira Shioji	...	Genjin
Minori Terada	...	Inumura Daikaku Masanori
Taiji Tonoyama
Mamako Yoneyama	...	Funamushi

Also Known As:

Legend of Eight Samurai (International: English title)
Legend of the Eight Samurai (USA) (dubbed version)

Runtime:

Brazil:133 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M | UK:15

Company:

Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Shinbei goes "evil" and attacks the princess and her friends when he jumps off the back of the horse you can see the black wire that's attach to his back that's keeping him off the ground. Futhurmore if you check out the top corner of the screen you can see the winch that the other end of the wire is connected to swinging around.

Movie Connections:

Version of Uchu kara no messeji (1978)

Soundtrack:

Satomi Hakken-den

1 ninja, 1 samurai, and 6 fighter/adventurers fight for princess shizu!

good movie but i suggest watching it and pretending you are an 8 year old. basic plot evil "demons" try to get rid of an entire clan that destroyed them 100 years earlier. they don't kill princess shizu of that clan and seek her out. shizu heads to her uncles clan and runs into several men who want to save her. they collect 8 people who have magic crystals and all go to the demons castle to destroy them. good movie i wont spoil the ending it doesn't take much brain faculties to watch it either.