Tajomaru: Avenging Blade

Synopsis

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

Crew

Art

• Yuji Hayashida Production Design
• Akira Sakamoto Decorator

Camera

• Takumi Furuya Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Keisuke Chiyoda Costume Design

Crew

• Yuta Morokaji Stunt Coordinator

Directing

• Hiroyuki Nakano Director
• Kôji Soejima Assistant Director

Editing

• Shuichi Kakesu Editor

Lighting

• Toshihide Kosaka Gaffer

Production

• Toshihiro Osato Line Producer
• Manabu Shinoda Post Production Producer
• Mataichirô Yamamoto Producer
• Hajime Tsubouchi Production Manager
• Minoru Takeoka Production Manager

Sound

• Tak Matsumoto Theme Song Performance
• Naoki Ohtsubo Original Music Composer
• Kenichi Fujimoto Sound Recordist
• Kenji Shibasaki Sound Effects
• Hiroshi Furukawa Music Producer
• Yoshiya Obara Sound Mixer

Writing

• Mataichirô Yamamoto Screenplay
• Shin'ichi Ichikawa Screenplay