The Magnificent Nine | |||||
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Kanji | 殿、利息でござる! | ||||
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Directed by | Yoshihiro Nakamura | ||||
Written by | Yoshihiro Nakamura Kenichi Suzuki | ||||
Story by | Michifumi Isoda | ||||
Produced by | Fumitsugu Ikeda | ||||
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Narrated by | Gaku Hamada | ||||
Cinematography | Yukihiro Okimura | ||||
Music by | Goro Yasukawa RC Succession's "Sukiyaki" | ||||
Distributed by | Shochiku | ||||
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Running time | 129 minutes[1] | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese | ||||
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]