
Snow on The Blades
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
Top Billed Cast

Kiichi Nakai
Kingo Shimura

Hiroshi Abe
Jyubei Sahashi

Kichiemon Nakamura II
Naosuke Ii

Ryoko Hirosue
Setsu Shimura

Masahiro Takashima
Shinnosuke Naito
Featured Crew
Hironobu Takamatsu
Screenplay
Shohei Kotaki
Producer

Setsurô Wakamatsu
Director
Yasuo Hasegawa
Screenplay

Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer
Fumio Ogawa
Production Design

Jiro Asada
Short Story
Tokushô Kikumura
Director of Photography
Masamitsu Haga
Producer
Hikaru Tani
Producer
Yoshihiro Kato
Producer
Kenzaburô Iida
Screenplay