Tajomaru: Avenging Blade (2009)

7.2/10 126 min Action History Drama

Overview

TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.

Cast

Shun Oguri

Naomitsu Hatakeyama

Yuki Shibamoto

Ako

Kei Tanaka

Sakuramaru

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Nobutsuna Hatakeyama

Hirotaro Honda

Hidetaka Kuriyama

Kyosuke Yabe

Michikane

Hiroki Matsukata

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Go Ayano

Takamasa Suga

Masaomi Kondo

Miho Fujima

Eugene Nomura

Takaki Uda

Takumi Kitamura

Kenichi Hagiwara

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