After the Rain
1999 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Ihei Misawa and his wife Tayo, stranded by rains at a country inn, bring a great deal of happiness to the other residents of the inn by means of Ihei's generosity and good spirit. Ihei is a masterless samurai and fencing expert. Ihei comes to the attention of Lord Shigeaki, who hires him as fencing instructor for Lord Shigeaki's men. But Ihei's expertise causes friction and jealousy in Shigeaki's castle and his future there comes into doubt.
Direction Takashi Koizumi
Cast Akira Terao · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Shiro Mifune · Fumi Dan · Hisashi Igawa · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Kenji Kodama · Mieko Harada · Tatsuo Matsumura · Takayuki Katô · Tatsuya Nakadai · Makiya Yamaguchi · Toshihide Wakamatsu · Daisuke Ryû · Bin Moritsuka · Masayoshi Nagasawa · Tappei Shimokawa · Kôen Okumura · Tomoko Otakara · Mieko Suzuki · Michiko Hozawa · Takao Zushi · Akihiko Sugizaki · Utaroku Miyakoya · Tetsuya Itô · Kyôko Oguma · Keiki Takenouchi · Masaaki Sasaki · Taiju Nakane · Norio Matsui · Ryûjirô Oki · Motohiro Toriki · Masaru Sakurai · Masahiro Noguchi · Shôgo Suzuki · Naoki Matsuda · Yûji Sawayama · Hajime Okayama · Tarô Ohmiya · Yoshiaki Yoza · Masakazu Azuhata · Yukio Abe · Taku Katô · Yûko Moriyama · Kazunori Shigeki · Seigi Ozeki · Masakazu Kawakura
Soundtrack Masaru Satô
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa · Shugoro Yamamoto
Cinematography Masaharu Ueda
Original title Ame agaru (After the Rain)
7.1
223 votes (FilmAffinity)
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