Muromachi Burai: A fun throwback to the jidaigeki genre.
The live-action adaptation of Ryosuke Kakine's 2016 novel, Muromachi Burai brought an epic jidaigeki production to the big screen in 2025. Having enjoyed some of the director, Yu Irie's previous works such as AI Collapse, Joker Game and Memoirs of a Murderer, I was both cautiously optimistic and intrigued to see whether Irie could pull off such a period movie. With a talented cast that featured Yo Oizumi, Kazuki Kitamura and Shinichi Tsutsumi, it had all the right ingredients to succeed. I believe that it did so. A full century before the Sengoku Jidai erupted in Japan, famine and plague ravaged the lands. The rather self-serving and laconic shogun did nothing to aid the people in need of his help. Rumours swirl around of a rebellion, an uprising and it coalesces around one man. Vagabond and skilled swordsman, Hyoe Hasuda, is the mastermind behind the revolt, leading the downtrodden common folk in their rise to arms. In a sad twist of fate, his friend Doken Honekawa, now in c...
