THE RONINS: Check Out The Latest Trailer For Toshi Asaka’s Award-Winning Indie Samurai Drama
When Toshi Asaka isn’t teaching the ways of Meishinryu Aiki-Jujutsu at his school in the city of Yokohama, he’s making movies.
The actor and martial artist, and Yokohama Film Club founder has plied his trade across the world, in part pursuant of a career in film that has since seen him at the helm to start, with 2017 short thriller, Blackout, and the award-winning 2018 samurai drama, Kaishaku: The Honor Of The Samurai. Several independent features later, Asaka has since returned in the last few years with his latest effort, The Ronins, an ultra-low budget samurai feature that just came out of the Bright International Film Festival with a win for Best Narrative Feature. Several trailers are already online but the latest one is available for you to check out atop the page.
The Ronin is a free Samurai who only follows his own faith. The faith that pursue the ultimate skill of his sword fighting. When two Ronins meet each other, the battle and the story begins.
Around the end of Samurai period, many Samurais become Ronin. Ronin is a samurai who regigned from his lord and travels around Japan. Most of them pursue their sword skills and look for the ultimate techniques of their sword fighting. Sometimes they are hired as Yojimbo, mercenaries or private guards. Some of them work for the money, but the others have strong faiths of what they believe is right, and they fight for their faith.
Two Ronins meet each other and start fighting immediately to find out which one is stronger than the other, but one lady runs into their fighting with many Yakuza chasing her. The Ronins stop fighting and help her. Then, she invits them to her town where Yakuza makes chaos. The two Ronin become the mercenaries of this town to clean up the mess of this town. However, the outrage of Yakuza was the already a part of the conspiracy…
The cast is headlined by Kohji Katoh (Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider, Shinya Tsukamoto’s Killing, Daisaku Kimura’s Samurai’s Promise), along with up-and-comers Daichi Hirahara, Kenji Kawata, Moira Komatsu and many more.
Even more awesome is that the film is shot in English as the trailer hints, but you’re fluent in Kanji and can use sites like Ameblo to try and keep up, you’re more than welcome!
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