Kumamoto Stories

Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus which includes the three short films: Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta, Onna Kunishuu Ikki.

• Takashi MiikeDirector
• Itaru EraScreenplay

• Tohru EmoriPaekche nobleman
• Renji IshibashiNakatomi-no-Kamatari
• Jinpachi NezuFrontier guard
• Ren OsugiNaka-no-Ooe-no-Ôji
• Kenichi EndoCast