Set sometime in the late Muromachi period, Naomitsu Hatakeyama (Shun Oguri) is the second son of the distinguished Hatakeyama family. His lifelong friend and and love interest is Ako-hime (Yuki Shibamoto). When Ako-hime's father dies, Yoshimasa Ashikaga (Kenichi Hagiwara) elicits a decree that will forever change their fates. Soon afterwards, Naomitsu is betrayed by his very own brother Nobutsuna Hatakeyama (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), who plans to forcibly take Aho-hime for himself. Naomitsu loves Ako-hime so much that he is ready to give up his life and flee into the mountains with Ako-hime. While travelling through the mountains, Naoitsu soon faces another betrayal, this time from retainer Sakuramaru (Kei Tanaka), a man Naomitsu once saved from death and took care of like a brother. Naomitsu Hatakeyama then comes back as Tajomaru... (from dramacrazy.net)
The story is fast paced and it looked like are cut scene, which was explained later in the story and because of that the ending was quite obvious. Also there is a love aspect to this, it's quite refreshing to see that it's not focused on that, leaving some viewers wanting more. The fight scenes are awesome though. There are some parts of the story that left me hanging though, like what happened to the Shogun and Yamada in the end. Anyway Tajomaru only wants Ako…
The main theme song that is played on the credits is called Pray by B'z. It was surprising though that the insert songs were in English, but maybe a Japanese sang that song but it didn't sound that the singer have any Japanese accent though. Oh well I was just a little surprised by that considering this is a Japanese movie set in the old days.
Oguri Shun, they say, made it look like it's his first movie. His acting wasn't all that great is what it meant... but to tell you the truth I'm not really good in judging what great acting is. But there are actors that made me feel that they are good and in this movie I didn't see that in Oguri Shun. And so that goes with the other actors. But the fact that they made me like the story is enough for me, I guess I was really focused on the story.
Oh well I still enjoyed watch this movie with Ogushun in it! hehe thanks Isha for suggesting!!! JA~
originally posted: April 20, 2010
