| Samurai Fiction | |
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| Directed by | Hiroyuki Nakano |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Nakano Hiroshi Saito |
| Starring | Tomoyasu Hotei Morio Kazama Mitsuru Fukikoshi |
| Cinematography | Yujiro Yajima |
| Music by | Tomoyasu Hotei |
| Distributed by | Pony Canyon |
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Running time | 111 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Samurai Fiction (SF サムライ・フィクション, Esu Efu Samurai Fikushon) is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the works of Akira Kurosawa. A loose spinoff was released in 2001, as Red Shadow.