Wine Road of the Samurai
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Wine Road of The Samurai is feature documentary film
based on a true story about a 34 Samurai
delegation to Europe
in 1863. It was directed by Sone Eiji and starred Shin Koyamada
as Himself and Narrator. This national TV show was distributed 28 TV stations, including Tokyo Broadcasting System
throughout Japan
on March 21, 2006.
This documentary is about a 34 Samurai delegation sent by the Japanese government to France
at the end of Edo era. They were sent to help solve diplomatic problems between Japan and Europe on December 29, 1863. At the time, Japan closed all of its ports. The Samurai were welcomed by every government they visited, including Napoleon III, in France. They were also photographed standing in front of Sphinx
, in Egypt
. The Samurai brought back lots of products from their trip including a book on producing wine
. They ended their expedition earlier than expected due to the need to report home about the astonishing technology
in modernizing countries.
This TV show took a year to finish filming all over the countries and was the first feature documentary filming in different countries such as Egypt, France, and many different locations in Japan by JNN Network and Tokyo Broadcasting System. Director
Eiji Sone shot a total footage of about 300 hours.
Executive Producer: Shannon C. Murphy
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
based on a true story about a 34 Samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
delegation to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in 1863. It was directed by Sone Eiji and starred Shin Koyamada
Shin Koyamada
is a film actor, producer, philanthropist and martial artist.Koyamada co-starred as “Nobutada” opposite Tom Cruise in the Warner Bros. action epic film The Last Samurai , with a worldwide box office of $456 million. Koyamada also starred in the action original movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior...
as Himself and Narrator. This national TV show was distributed 28 TV stations, including Tokyo Broadcasting System
Tokyo Broadcasting System
, TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....
throughout Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
on March 21, 2006.
Plot summary
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
at the end of Edo era. They were sent to help solve diplomatic problems between Japan and Europe on December 29, 1863. At the time, Japan closed all of its ports. The Samurai were welcomed by every government they visited, including Napoleon III, in France. They were also photographed standing in front of Sphinx
Sphinx
A sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head or a cat head.The sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless...
, in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. The Samurai brought back lots of products from their trip including a book on producing wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
. They ended their expedition earlier than expected due to the need to report home about the astonishing technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
in modernizing countries.
Locations
- Yamagata, Japan
- Okayama, Japan
- Paris, France
- Burgundy, France
- Marseille, France
- Cairo, Egypt
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Luxor, Egypt
This TV show took a year to finish filming all over the countries and was the first feature documentary filming in different countries such as Egypt, France, and many different locations in Japan by JNN Network and Tokyo Broadcasting System. Director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
Eiji Sone shot a total footage of about 300 hours.
Crew
- Directed by: Eiji Sone
- Executive Produced by: Kenichi Hara
- Executive producer by: Shin KoyamadaShin Koyamadais a film actor, producer, philanthropist and martial artist.Koyamada co-starred as “Nobutada” opposite Tom Cruise in the Warner Bros. action epic film The Last Samurai , with a worldwide box office of $456 million. Koyamada also starred in the action original movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior...
- Produced by: Eiji Sone
- Produced by: Shinji Yamada
Executive Producer: Shannon C. Murphy
Distribution
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