A SAMURAI IN TIME

At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, a samurai prepares to fight a ronin when a flash of lightning hits him. Waking up, he learns he’s been transported through time to the present day, and the duel location is now a film set for a jidai-geki movie! Still in his samurai garb, he’s mistaken for an extra and immediately thrust into the world of film production. Due to his “authentic” look and language, he’s employed on many shows and soon plays the role of a kiraeyaku, a swordsman whose job is to spectacularly and continuously die on screen. Lead actor Makiya Yamaguchi has a resume that includes a number of jidai-geki movies. Shot on location at Toei Studios Kyoto, A SAMURAI IN TIME is dedicated to the late Seizo Fukumoto who is said to have been killed tens of thousands of times on screen.