Japanese Movie Screening: Samurai Cat

The Soga Japan Center will host the Japan Foundation Film Series at Room 2028 Brown Hall on December 3 and December 5. These screenings are free and open to the public.

5pm, Tuesday, December 3

Samurai Cat/猫侍 (2014) dir. Yoshitaka YAMAGUCHI, 100 min. (Movie Trailer)

Expert swordsman Madarame Kyutaro (Kitamura) was once a feared killer, but now lives in poverty. One day, he receives his first assassination request in quite a while. However, the target for the assassination turns out to be a cat said to have turned its master into a spineless jellyfish… 

Synopsis (Japanese):
時は幕末。
かつて百人斬りと恐れられた剣豪は、今は貧乏浪人となり果てていた。
行き場を失った男に久々に舞い込んだ仕事、それは敵対一家の親分が飼う｢猫｣を斬れというものだった…。
しかし、この小さな生き物との出逢いで、剣しか知らぬ侍が、初めて”癒し”を知った。