Shinsuke SATO 佐藤信介
The Princess Blade
Nippon Cinema ª
Years ago, the royal house was abolished in an undefined country. Its bodyguard, a family of elite fighters, had to flee and is now employed in the neighboring state as a contract killer. Yuki is the princess of these fighters, but on the day before her 20th birthday she learns that her mother had been murdered years earlier by the leader of the killer family. She rebels and is hunted down mercilessly from then on. On the run, she meets Takashi. Takashi is a member of a terrorist group and wants to quit for reasons of conscience, but this organization does not tolerate any rebels either. The circles around the two dropouts are getting tighter and tighter. For the film THE PRINCESS BLADE, which is based on the manga "Shurayuki hime" from the seventies, the best special effects and martial arts experts in Asia were mobilized. In a strangely artificial world of swordplay and high tech, the action really takes off.
Japan 2001
92 minutes
Director
Shinsuke SATO
Script
Shinsuke SATO based on a manga by {0}
Cinematography
Taro KAWAZU
Music
Kenji KAWAI
Production
Oz
World sales
Kadokawa Shoten
Cast
Hideaki ITO, Yumiko SHAKU, Shiro SANO, Yoichi NUMATA, Kyusaku SHIMADA, Yoko MAKI
About Shinsuke SATO
佐藤信介
Shinsuke SATO, born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1970, began his career as a short film director and screenwriter while still studying at Musashino Art University. After distinguishing himself as a screenwriter for films by Jun ICHIKAWA and Isao YUKISADA in the late 1990s, he had his international breakthrough as a director with THE PRINCESS BLADE (2001). Since then, he has gained recognition for the realization of numerous successful live-action adaptations of popular mangas, such as GANTZ (2011 / NC ’11), I AM A HERO (2016 / NC ’17) and DEATH NOTE: LIGHT UP THE NEW WORLD (2016 / NC ’17). He also directed the animated feature OBLIVION ISLAND: HARUKA AND THE MAGIC MIRRORS (2009) which won the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD in 2010.