Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee reimagines Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film, set in late 1800s Japan after the fall of Shogunate Japan. Onetime assassin Jubee Kamata, played by Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe, leaves his life of seclusion on a small farm to take up the sword again when the government begins harassing the local populace, breaking a promise he made to his dead wife.
Unforgiven
Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee reimagines Oscar-winning classic Unforgiven as a Japanese period drama.