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The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025: A Samurai in Time (12)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
| Season (6 Mar 2025) |
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Prices
Standard Ticket: £9
OAPs (over 60): £7.75
Budget (Unwaged/ Low Income) No proof needed: £4
Students: £4
25 and Under: £4
Arts University Plymouth Staff: £4.
Friends: 10% discount and £6 tickets on Tuesdays
Matinees: £7
Bringing in Baby: £4
Free tickets are available for Companions, Personal Assistants or Carers accompanying customers who are Disabled and/or customers who have a CEA card. Click here for more information.
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About us
Dir. YASUDA Junichi, Japan, 2024, 131 mins. In Japanese with English subtitles. Cast. YAMAGUCHI Makiya, FUKE Norimasa, SAKURA Yuno.
As the Edo period wanes in the mid-19th century, samurai KOSAKA Shinzaemon (YAMAGUCHI Makiya) draws his blade against his rival on the streets of Kyoto. But as the fight begins, sudden lightning strikes… and when Shinzaemon awakens, something is different. He's been sent forward through time onto the set of a 21st-century period drama!
He is lost, afraid and alone in a familiar-yet-unfamiliar world, but assistant director Yuko (SAKURA Yuno) soon finds something for him to do: his skill with the sword makes him a perfect candidate for an extra in their TV show. So Shinzaemon begins a new life as a kirareyaku¬, an actor specialising in pretending to die in battle, and slowly finds his way forward in his strange new reality.
A Samurai in Time is a smart, crowd-pleasing comedy centring around a man with a great sense of obligation, and more: behind the laughs, it expertly blends thoughtful character study, sharp cultural observations and a heartfelt tribute to the declining jidaigeki (period drama) industry.
