Uzumasa Limelight

Uzumasa Limelight

104 mins | Drama, Action | June 14, 2014

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

Uzumasa Limelight

104 mins | Drama, Action | June 14, 2014

Uzumasa Limelight

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

IMDb rating	6.9
Producers	Toei Studios Kyoto
Original title	太秦ライムライト
Directors	Yusuke Nakagawa, Ken Ochiai
Writers	Hiroyuki Ono

Cast

Seizô Fukumoto

as Seiichi

Chihiro Yamamoto

as Satsuki iga

Hirotaro Honda

as Kenichi Naganuma

Masashi Goda

as Akihiko Kawashima

Rantaro Mine

as

Asahi Kurizuka

as

Michihiro Kinoshita

as

Yoshiyuki Shibata

as

Kazuaki Tai

as

Boiru Nakajima

as

Anna Kawashima

as

Shogen

as

Shizuka Nakamura

as

Hidekazu Ichinose

as

Hana Ebise

as

Sadao Nakajima

as Sadao Nakajima

Daisaku Kadokawa

as

Hisako Manda

as Mitsuru Tamura

Nenji Kobayashi

as

Hiroki Matsukata

as

Ayami Nakamura

as

Chihiro Tanaka

as