The Magnificent Nine

The Magnificent Nine
Poster
Japanese name
Kanji殿、利息でござる!
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnTono, Risoku de Gozaru!
Directed byYoshihiro Nakamura
Written byYoshihiro Nakamura
Kenichi Suzuki
Story byMichifumi Isoda
Produced byFumitsugu Ikeda
Starring
Narrated byGaku Hamada
CinematographyYukihiro Okimura
Music byGoro Yasukawa
RC Succession's "Sukiyaki"
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • May 14, 2016 (2016-05-14)
Running time
129 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥611.3 million[2]

The Magnificent Nine (殿、利息でござる!, Tono, Risoku de Gozaru!) is a 2016 Japanese jidaigeki samurai comedy film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura.[3][4] It was released in Japan by Shochiku on May 14, 2016.[1]

The original story is Jusaburō Kokudaya (ja:穀田屋十三郎, Kokudaya Jusaburō) collected by "Unsung Heroes of Old Japan" written by Michifumi Isoda (ja:磯田道史, Isoda Michifumi) , a record of the townspeople who saved the plight of the Shukuba town at Yoshioka-juku (ja:吉岡宿) in the Sendai Domain (Sendai city) in the 18th century "Kokuonki (国恩記)" Based on (written by Monk Zuishi Eishū (栄洲瑞芝, Eishū Zuishi)).

This movie's catch phrase is "Zeni to Atama ha Tsukaiyou". (ゼニと頭は、使いよう。, Let's use Money and Brain. (Financial schemes and Wisdom require good handling.)).[5]

  1. ^ a b "殿、利息でござる!". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  2. ^ "Japan Box Office Report – 5/21~5/22". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  3. ^ "殿、利息でござる!(2016)". allcinema (in Japanese). Singray. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  4. ^ Blair, Gavin J. (May 16, 2016). "Japan Box Office: 'Zootopia' Holds on to No. 1, Passes $35M". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Official website (in Japanese)