Tag: Snow on The Blades

Setsuro Wakamatsu’s 2014 film ‘Snow on the Blades’ presents a contemplative meditation on loyalty, obsolescence, and the inexorable march of modernization in nineteenth-century Japan. The narrative centres on Shimura Kingo, a master swordsman bearing the weight of a catastrophic failure at Sakurada Gate in 1860, when his lord and the shogun’s chief minister fell to…