Looking to feast your eyes on 'Baian the Assassin' on your TV or mobile device at home? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Yasuo Furuhata-directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you.
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Released , 'Baian the Assassin' stars Kinnosuke Nakamura, Mayumi Ogawa, Kimie Shingyoji, Junko Miyashita The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a user score of 90 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 1 knowledgeable users.
What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them." .
