The Retired Samurai
1987, Japanese. Directed by Akinori Matsuo.
Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much less the desire to assert himself and make Iemitsu listen to reason. The plot thickens when a lovely young woman enters the picture. Can she change Hikozaemon's mind, and thus alter the path of Japanese history? No longer a young man, can Hikozaemon gain the shogun's ear, and succeed in warning him of the evil plot to overthrow him?
- Runtime
- 0h 45m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 10 September 1987
- Original title
- 傑作時代劇 天下の御意見番罷り通る！彦左衛門外記
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Ichirō Miyagawa
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The Retired Samurai isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 10 September 1987. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Retired Samurai?
The Retired Samurai (1987) was directed by Akinori Matsuo and stars Toshirō Mifune, Misako Tanaka, Ryo Tamura.