Samurai Hustle

Samurai Hustle (lit. Mission Impossible: Samurai) (超高速!参勤交代, Chōkōsoku! Sankin Kōtai) is a 2014 Japanese jidaigeki comedy film directed by Katsuhide Motoki and starring Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyoko Fukada and Tsuyoshi Ihara. It was released on 21 June 2014.[1]

Samurai Hustle
Poster
Directed byKatsuhide Motoki
StarringKuranosuke Sasaki
Kyoko Fukada
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Yasufumi Terawaki
Yusuke Kamiji
Yuri Chinen
Tokio Emoto
Takanori Jinnai
Masahiko Nishimura
Release date
  • 21 June 2014 (2014-06-21) (Japan)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥1.55 billion (Japan)

It featured in the Japanese Film Festival in Australia in 2014 under the name Samurai Hustle.[2] The film made its Los Angeles premiere at LA Eigafest 2014.

It was followed by 2016's Samurai Hustle Returns.

Cast

Reception

The film initially grossed ¥900 million in Japan.[3] Its final box office tally was ¥1.55 billion yen.[4]

References
  1. 超高速！参勤交代(2014). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  2. Samurai Hustle (超高速！参勤交代). Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. Kevin Ma (8 July 2014). "Maleficent dethrones Frozen in Japan". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  4. Eiren, "Box Office Statistics for 2014 in Japan." http://www.eiren.org/boxoffice_e/2014.html Accessed 2020-07-27


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