The Last Revenge (movie)
遺恨あり 明治十三年 最後の仇討- User score: 7
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Takashi Minamoto
- Production companies: Media House Sound Design, TV Asahi, Horipro, Toei Studios Kyoto, elevengraphics
- Release date: 2/26/2011
- Run time: 120 min.
Movie description
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.
