Uzumasa Limelight
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
Cast: Seizō Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Hirotaro Honda, Masashi Goda, Rantaro Mine, Asahi Kurizuka, Michihiro Kinoshita, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Kazuaki Tai, Boiru Nakajima, Anna Kawashima, Shogen, Shizuka Nakamura
Crew: Ken Ochiai (Director), Hiroyuki Ono (Screenplay), Chris Freilich (Director of Photography), Nobuko Toda (Original Music Composer), Kazuma Jinnouchi (Original Music Composer)