Shortly after, Yaichiro breaks out of prison and takes a family hostage. Nonetheless, gossip prompts Katagiri to send Kie back to the countryside to live with her father. Though their fondness for one other is evident, Kie and Katagiri are keenly aware of the difference in their social class and act accordingly. Meanwhile, Kie has since recovered and is once again Katagiri’s housekeeper. Believing that Yaichiro’s friends are complicit, Hori ( Ken Ogata), the clan’s chief retainer, demands that Katagiri identify them, but he refuses, citing his honor as a samurai, and he is dismissed. After being brought back to the village in a prisoner's cage, Yaichiro is denied the honor of ritual suicide and must live out the remainder of his days in a cell. Word arrives from Edo that government officials thwarted an uprising against the shogun and that Yaichiro, Katagiri’s friend, was involved. The changing times have forced Katagiri and his fellow samurai to learn the techniques of Western weaponry, which the elder members of the clan disdain. Outraged, he demands that Kie’s husband file divorce papers, and then carries her to his own house to recover. Iseya (Sachiko Mitsumoto), Kie’s mother-in-law, and finds Kie incoherent with illness. Months later, however, Shino tells Katagiri that from the start of her marriage, Kie has been forced to perform all manner of duties to the point that she is little more than a slave to her new family, and that she is gravely ill.
While walking through town, he sees Kie in a kimono shop where she assures him that she is well. Three years pass, during which Katagiri's mother passes away. In a voiceover, Katagiri hints at his affection for Kie, but then relates that around the same time Shino married Samon, Kie married a man of the merchant class and left the Katagiri household. Also present is Kie ( Takako Matsu), the Katagiri’s housekeeper, who is literate and schooled in etiquette. She desires a match between Samon and Shino ( Tomoko Tabata), Katagiri’s sister.
His doubts are confirmed when the married Yaichiro expresses an intention to indulge in Edo’s sensual pleasures while stationed there.ĭuring dinner that evening, Katagiri’s mother reminds Samon of the financial hardships the family has endured since the death of her husband (who committed ritual suicide after financial improprieties were discovered on a construction project). Though the position is desirable, Katagiri voices his concern that a man of Yaichiro’s character is likely to get into trouble. Two samurai, Munezo Katagiri ( Masatoshi Nagase) and Samon Shimada ( Hidetaka Yoshioka), bid farewell to their friend Yaichiro Hazama (Yukiyoshi Ozawa), who is to serve in Edo (present-day Tokyo) under the shogunate of that region. The story takes place in Japan in the 1860s, a time of cultural assimilation. The soundtrack is an original composition by Isao Tomita. The film was written by Yamada with Yoshitaka Asama and, like its predecessor The Twilight Samurai (2002), based on a short story by Shūhei Fujisawa. The plot revolves around several samurai during a time of change in the ruling and class structures of Japan. The Hidden Blade ( 隠し剣 鬼の爪, Kakushi ken: Oni no tsume, literally "Hidden Blade: Oni's Claw") is a 2004 film set in 1860s Japan, directed by Yoji Yamada.
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