Sacramento International Film Festival 2009

"It cannot be Eight...it has to be Seven Samurai!"

It’s 1953 and beyond the Tokyo Metropolis, deep in the mountains of Gotemba, Japan's most ambitious Director is about to begin production on a jidei-geki (period drama) samurai movie. By a little persistence and a stroke of good luck a small time actor, Nanshu, gets the chance of a lifetime: a lead role as one of the eight samurai that will save a village from bandits.

After months of training, Nanshu is betting it all that this role will make him the greatest actor in the History of Japan. But little does he know that last night, the Director had a dream. And there is only one thing Nanshu didn’t prepare for: being fired.

Come and see how Nanshu, against all odds, will help to make cinematic history.

THE 8TH SAMURAI is a tragic comedy about fate from writer/director Justin Ambrosino that pays homage to the samurai films, Italian Neorealism and the American comedies of the 1950s.