SAMURAI VENGEANCE | Canadian Premiere | Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Sat, Aug 8 · 2:00 PM
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto
A richly layered period mystery adapted from the award-winning novel by Sayako Nagai, recipient of both the Naoki Prize and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize. The film unfolds in Edo-era Japan, where a young kabuki actors celebrated act of revenge becomes the subject of rumor, performance, and deception. A year and a half after the widely witnessed vendetta, a provincial samurai arrives at the Moritaza theatre seeking the truth behind the incident. As he gathers testimony from those connected to the yo