Masashi Goda

Empowered by ancient energy, the Ohrangers must battle the Emperor to prevent him from exterminating humanity and establishing machine rule.

Uzumasa has been called the Hollywood of Japan. Located in the historical Kyoto Prefecture, known as the cultural center of the nation, it has produced many “jidaigeki, ” Japanese period films which are set in or before the Edo period. These films are loved by the Japanese people and praised all over the world, but would not be what they were if it weren’t for the “kirareyaku, ” actors whose job it is to be killed by the lead star, without ever being in the limelight. Uzumasa Limelight is about those men, the unsung heroes of classic jidaigeki films; Actors who loved and respected the art, even when the production of classic jidaigeki films began to dwindle. Staring the legendary Seizo Fukumoto, Japan’s most famous kirareyaku who appeared as the “Silent Samurai” in the 2003 Hollywood film The Last Samurai, and using Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight as an underlying theme, the admirable story of these men dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.

Visually stunning, bursting with action, desire, and sexual tension, this is the mad journey of a rebellious princess who falls from grace and is forced to work at a brothel. A seductive adaptation of the classic kabuki play, PRINCESS SAKURA follows the willful princess as she takes up work at a brothel in the hopes of meeting the man she fell in love with the night he assaulted her.