Muromachi Outsiders
2025 Japanese film
Muromachi Outsiders (Japanese: 室町無頼, Hepburn: Muromachi Burai), released in North America as Samurai Fury, is a 2025 Japanese period epic film directed by Yu Irie, starring Yo Oizumi, Kento Nagao, Wakana Matsumoto, Akira Emoto, Kazuki Kitamura and Shinichi Tsutsumi. Set in early 1460s Kyoto amidst the Kanshō famine, it follows rōnin Hasuda Hyoe as he leads an uprising against the shogunate. The film is an adaptation of the Ryôsuke Kakine novel Muromachi Bakufu.
Plot
In the year 1461, western Japan is stricken by the Kanshō famine, with 82,000 people dying from the resulting epidemics while Nawa, the shōgun of Kyoto, raises taxes to fund his lavish lifestyle and corrupt monks ravage villagers who cannot repay their loans. Hasuda Hyoe, a rōnin, is hired by Honekawa Doken, the chief of security in Kyoto and Hasuda's former comrade, to prevent an uprising in Yoshizaka, Kawachi Province. He is given 600 mon and Saizō, an orphan who was captured by Honekawa's forces during a recent raid on a monastery.
After burning down a customs station, Hasuda and Saizō save Yoshizaka from a group of bandits. Hasuda later warns the villagers that the shōgunate is aware of their plans of staging an uprising, and they must be patient while he finds the right means to aid in their cause. Saizō is offered his freedom, but he chooses to follow the same path as Hasuda. The duo travels to Imazu, where Hasuda leaves Saizō to become an apprentice to Master Karasaki for a year.
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