“Engagingly slow-boiling…. “Bushido” holds you with its performances and a story that circles around questions of honor, loyalty, masculinity and the ties that bind and sometimes throttle. It’s the movie’s questioning of what makes a man a man, as well as its stillness, that leaves the strongest impression. Here, when men face each other across a Go board, they find themselves.”
— Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“A lovingly conceived and meticulously executed throwback that revitalizes the genre.”
— Mark Schilling, The Japan Times

Screening April 17-23rd!
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Taciturn Kakunoshin, renowned for his formidable skills both with a sword and in the game of go, embodies the purest ideals of the samurai code. But when his unwavering honesty is exploited, he is framed by his own clan for a theft he did not commit. Disgraced and forced to become a ronin, he survives as a humble seal maker, quietly supporting his grown daughter while burying the wounds of betrayal. Years later, when a case of missing gold pulls him into a new web of intrigue, Kakunoshin finally uncovers the truth behind his long-buried downfall. With the real culprit exposed, the restraint that once defined him shatters. The go board flips, and a hellstorm of righteous vengeance follows.

Acclaimed director Kazuya Shiraishi’s first entry in the genre, “is not only a great return to form reminiscent of the golden age of samurai cinema” (Asian Movie Pulse), but an elegant, ferocious epic destined to be hailed as a new classic.