The Abe Clan - 1995

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.

94min
1995
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10
IMDB rating7.0/10

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki profile pictureTsutomu YamazakiAbe Yaich'emon
Koichi Sato profile pictureKoichi SatoAbe Yagobei
Keizo Kanie profile pictureKeizo KanieAbe Gonbei
Renji Ishibashi profile pictureRenji IshibashiHayashi Geki
Noboru Nakaya profile pictureNoboru NakayaHosokawa Tadatoshi
Hiroyuki Sanada profile pictureHiroyuki SanadaEmoto Matashichiro
Tetta Sugimoto profile pictureTetta SugimotoTakeuchi Kazuma

About The Abe Clan

The Abe Clan Overview

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.

Runtime: 94min

Extra details

Original Title: 阿部一族
Original Language: Japanese
Directed By: Kinji Fukasaku
Production Companies
Shochiku