A Samurai Movie Rhapsody Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

This is a Movie in a Movie like no other ever before Kyoei a historical film studio in Kyoto Modeled on Toei is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are struggling with the hightech equipment their skills at creating choreographed sword battles are undiminished The NHK project will dramatize the Ikedaya incident which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360 onecut scene involving the worlds most advanced highspeed camera and wire action for a scene where Kondo Isami will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya Can they succeed in filming the single greatest swordfight scene in samurai movie history