Unforgiven

– Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880s. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shog..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 15 Minutes
Release Year:
2013
Original Name:
許されざる者
Unforgiven (2013) - Also known as 許されざる者

Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880s. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.

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Unforgiven (2013) - Trailer

Release Date:

13 Sep 2013

Language:

Japanese

Director:

Sang-il Lee

Writer:

David Webb Peoples, Sang-il Lee (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Ken Watanabe, Shioli Kutsuna, Jun Kunimura, Yûya Yagira

Plot:

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubee Kamata (Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubee is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%