What is The Samurai I Loved about?

Name: The Samurai I Loved
Genre: Drama

THE SAMURAI I LOVED (SEMISHIGURE), 2005, 131 min. Novelist Shuhei Fujisawa has had several of his emotionally complex samurai novels translated to the screen. Here, director Mitsuo Kurotsuchi beautifully adapts Fujisawa’s saga of teenage samurai, Bunshiro (Somegoro Ichikawa), whose father (Ken Ogata) is embroiled in a political conspiracy that results in the patriarch’s forced ritual suicide. Banished from their farm home, Bunshiro and his mother end up residing in a hovel. But several years later, Bunshiro’s family is re-instated, and, in a surprise move, the clan leader appoints the young swordsman as the provincial magistrate. Complicating matters, Bunshiro discovers that his childhood sweetheart, Fuku (Yoshino Kimura), has been forced into becoming one of the lord’s concubines. Her accidental pregnancy by the nobleman will spur a profound, overlapping impact on Bunshiro and ignite a new plan to discredit the young man and his family.

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What is The Samurai I Loved about?: THE SAMURAI I LOVED (SEMISHIGURE), 2005, 131 min. Novelist Shuhei Fujisawa has had several of his emotionally complex samurai novels translated to the screen. Here, director Mitsuo Kurotsuchi beautifully adapts Fujisawa’s saga of teenage samurai, Bunshiro (Somegoro Ichikawa), whose father (Ken Ogata) is embroiled in a political conspiracy that results in the patriarch’s forced ritual suicide. Banished from their farm home, Bunshiro and his mother end up residing in a hovel. But several years later, Bunshiro’s family is re-instated, and, in a surprise move, the clan leader appoints the young swordsman as the provincial magistrate. Complicating matters, Bunshiro discovers that his childhood sweetheart, Fuku (Yoshino Kimura), has been forced into becoming one of the lord’s concubines. Her accidental pregnancy by the nobleman will spur a profound, overlapping impact on Bunshiro and ignite a new plan to discredit the young man and his family.