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Uzumasa Limelight
Directed by
Ken Ochiai
Not Rated
2014
1h 44m
Action
,
Drama
7.0
91%
88%
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Seizo Fukumoto has reportedly died 50,000 times in a career that has spanned half a century. His work catches the eye of Satsuki, who requests that he mentor her into becoming as good a fighter as he.
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Cast of Uzumasa Limelight
Seizō Fukumoto
Seiichi
Chihiro Yamamoto
Satsuki iga
Hirotaro Honda
Kenichi Naganuma
Masashi Goda
Akihiko Kawashima
Rantaro Mine
Asahi Kurizuka
Michihiro Kinoshita
Yoshiyuki Shibata
Kazuaki Tai
Boiru Nakajima
Anna Kawashima
Shogen
Shizuka Nakamura
Hidekazu Ichinose
Hana Ebise
Sadao Nakajima
Sadao Nakajima
Daisaku Kadokawa
Hisako Manda
Mitsuru Tamura
Nenji Kobayashi
Hiroki Matsukata
Ayami Nakamura
Chihiro Tanaka
Honoka Ishibashi
Nao Yamazaki
Ken Ochiai
Director
Hiroyuki Ono
Writer / Producer
Ko Mori
Producer
Shohei Sano
Producer
Uzumasa Limelight Ratings & Reviews
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Uzumasa Limelight is a great film about films, which, although takes the side of the veterans, ends up depicting hope for both them and the Japanese cinema in general
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
Alas, maybe Uzumasa is now too similar to Hollywood and as a result, Ochiai can't help but fall into the Hollywood formulas, predictable outcomes, and narrow emotional breadth.
Epoch Times
Joe Bendel
Fukumoto would be a far worthier choice than most of the recognized best-actor contenders. One of the best films of the year, very highly recommended for all movie lovers.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
What marks out Uzumasa Limelight... is its willingness to combine withering criticism of the laziness and corruption in much modern filmmaking with graciousness in the face of change.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Directing with an old-fashioned tenderness toward his unassuming star, Ken Ochiai conjures a swan song to a waning art form and those who practice it.
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
A cri de coeur on the samurai flicks of a bygone era, "Uzumasa Limelight" unfolds understatedly and movingly like something from Clint Eastwood at the top of his game.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's Fukumoto's wonderfully weathered countenance that makes Ochiai's film such an elegiac delight. On it, you can see the entire history of samurai cinema, or at least that essential part of it that died often, and beautifully so.
L.A. Weekly
Michael Nordine
None of this goes down with any real verve, though Kamiyama's wrinkled face is a small marvel of expressivity.
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