Gohatto
Year:
1999
Production Country:
France / Great Britain / Japan
Drama set in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, 1895. The militia are selecting new recruits and in tests against the militia's best warrior, two men stand out and are taken on: Tashiro, a lower-ranking samurai, and Kano, a handsome young man. Tashiro is immediately smitten by Kano.
Cast & credits
Cast
- narrator Kei Sato
- Captain Toshizo Hijikata Takeshi Kitano
- Sozaburo Kano, young samurai Ryuhei Matsuda
- Lieutenant Soji Okita Shinji Takeda
- Hyozo Tashiro Tadanobu Asano
- Commodore Isami Kondo Yoichi Sai
- Lt Genzaburo Inoue Jiro Sakagami
- Heibei Sugano, samurai Koji Matoba
- Inspector Jo Yamazaki Tommys' Masa
- Officer Koshitaro Ito Masato Ibu
- Nishiki-Dayu, geisha Uno Kanda
- Wachigaiya Zakoba Katsura
- the servant, Omatsu Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Toujiro Yuzawa, samurai Tomoro Taguchi
- cast member Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- cast member Kenichi Urata
- cast member Youzaburo Itoh
- cast member Shun Sugata
- cast member Susumu Terajima
- cast member Yoshiaki Umegaki
- cast member Yoshiyuki Omori
- cast member Seiji Kurasaki
- cast member Yuji Yamazaki
- cast member Usaburo Oshima
- cast member Daisuke Iijima
- cast member Takuya Muramatsu
- cast member Yoji Tanaka
- cast member Masanosuke Yamaguchi
- cast member Yoichi Iijima
- cast member Tojiro Kinoshita
- cast member Kazuhiko Okuno
- cast member Iwao
- cast member Yukiharu Yamaguchi
- cast member Mitsugi Takei
- cast member Takashi Odajima
- cast member Hirofumi Nakase
- cast member Toru Otomo
- cast member Kumotaro Mukai
- cast member Shogo Tajika
- cast member Akira Kohara
- cast member Kazumi Sawanoi
- cast member Sayami Toda
- cast member Mami Nakamura
- cast member Emiko Michii
- cast member Makoto Togashi
- cast member Chikako Aoyama
Credits
Direction
- Director Nagisa Oshima
- Directorial Assistance Yusuke Narita
- Assistant Director Takehiko Nakajima
- Assistant Director Shinji Harada
- Director's Assistant Satoshi Ito
- Director's Assistant Tomohiko Yamashita
- Director's Assistant Kazuhiro Hayashikawa
Production
- © Shochiku Co. Ltd.
- © Kadokawa Shoten
- © BS Asahi
- © Imagica
- © Eisei Gekijo
- Production Company Oshima Productions
- Produced by Shochiku Co. Ltd.
- Produced by Kadokawa Shoten
- Produced by Imagica
- Produced by BS Asahi
- Produced by Eisei Gekijo
- Produced by BAC Films
- Produced by Studio Canal+, Le
- Produced by Recorded Picture Company
- Presents Shochiku Co. Ltd.
- Presents BAC Films
- Presents Studio Canal+, Le
- Presents Recorded Picture Company
- Production Cordination by Eizo Kyoto Film Company
- Production Cordination by Shochiku Kyoto
- Executive Producer Nobuyoshi Ôtani
- Executive Producer Jean Labadie
- Executive Producer Jeremy Thomas
- Producer Eiko Oshima
- Producer Shigehiro Nakagawa
- Producer Kazuo Shimizu
- Production Office Co-ordinator Masako Hosono
- Production Accountant Mari Kondo
- Producers' Assistant Masayuki Motomochi
- Producers' Assistant Shigeki Nishimura
- Production Assistance Ichirô Yamamoto
- Actors' Liaison Yoko Aminaka
- Production Assistant Kiyoshi Kurokawa
- Production Assistant Takeshi Konishi
- Production Assistant Masuto Takeshima
- International Liaison Satoru Iseki
- International Liaison Masaki Koga
- International Liaison Meri Koyama
- International Liason Linda Hoagland
Writing
- Screenplay Nagisa Oshima
- Based on novel 'Shinsengumi Keppuroku' b Ryotaro Shiba
Photography
- Director of Photography Toyomichi Kurita
- Camera Operator (B) Hiroo Yanagida
- Steadicam Operator Akira Sako
- Camera Assistant Shinya Kimura
- Camera Assistant Yoshiaki Yamamoto
- Camera Assistant Hajime Kanda
- Camera Assistant Yoichi Chiashi
- Chief Lighting Technician Hiroshi Takehisa
- Electrician Norikazu Yasuda
- Electrician Ryuji Fujii
- Electrician Tatsuya Fujikawa
- Electrician Koji Idera
- Electrician Haruhiro Yamaguchi
- Electrician Kazuhiro Iwashita
- Electrician Kazushi Maruyama
- Grip Isao Nishimura
- Grip Tetsuji Sato
- Grip Yasuyuki Jitsuhara
- Grip Hiroshi Matsuda
Stills
- Stills Photography Daisaburo Harada
Special Effects
- Computer Graphics Supervisor Mitsuaki Hashimoto
- Computer Graphics Mitsuharu Haibara
Editing
- Editor Tomoyo Oshima
- Assistant Editor Hiroaki Morishita
Design
- Production Designer Yoshinobu Nishioka
- Art Director Shoichi Yasuda
- Production Designer's Assistant Kazutoshi Marui
- Production Designer's Assistant Eri Yamamoto
- Production Designer's Assistant Tomoko Kurata
- Set Decorator's Assistant Yosakichi Shimizu
- Set Decorator's Assistant Atsushi Shimamura
- Set Decorator's Assistant Keita Gohara
- Set Decorator's Assistant Nami Hoshizaki
- Art Department's Assistant Toshio Fukuda
- Sculptor Tomoo Haraguchi
- Sculptor Shigeaki Ito
- Construction Supervisor Kazuo Kajitani
- Construction Supervisor Kyoichi Yanase
Costumes
- Costume Designer Emi Wada
- Wardrobe Kazuo Matsuda
- Wardrobe Fumio Kida
- Wardrobe Assistant Misako Kajimoto
- Wardrobe Assistant Yukiko Kanawara
Make-up
- Make-up Artist Kunio Yamasaki
- Make-up Artist Mitsuyo Takasaki
- Additional Make-up Ihoko Uchiyama
- Hair Design Tsuneo Soga
- Hairdresser Yuriko Nishikawa
- Hairdresser Kiyomi Hirose
Titles
- Titles Designer Yokozo Akamatsu
- Main Title Calligraphy Yoshinori Kono
Film processing
- Colour Timing Masaharu Omi
- Optical Processing Masaharu Sekiguchi
Music
- Music Composed/Orchestrated/Conducted by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Computer System Operation Yasushi Mouri
- String Section Led by Asuka Kaneko
- Additional Musician Tamami Tono
- Additional Musician Atsushi Ichinohe
- Additional Musician Keiko Narita
- Additional Musician Izumi Iijima
- Additional Musician Masayuki Okamoto
- Music Production Norika Sora
Sound
- Music Recorded and Mixed by Fernando Aponte
- Music Recorded and Mixed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Assistant [Music] Engineer Takeshi Hakamata
- Assistant [Music] Engineer Ken Matsuoka
- Assistant [Music] Engineer Tomoyasu Tanaka
- Music Recorded at KAB America Studios (New York)
- Music Recorded at Victor Aoyoma Studios
- Music Recorded at Bunkamura Studios
- Sound Recordist/Mixer Kunio Ando
- Sound Assistant Osamu Matsumoto
- Sound Assistant Hiroshi Ishigai
- Sound Assistant Shinsuke Nagashima
- Sound Assistant Yutaka Abe
- Re-recording Assistant Mirai Ueno
- Re-recording Assistant Akira Nakano
- Optical Re-recording Mixer Akira Rizawa
- Negative Cutter Chie Aoki
- Sound Effects Kenji Shibasaki
- Sound Effects Keiko Kawamoto
Stunts
- Swordplay Instructor Hidenobu Togo
- Swordplay Choreography Hirofumi Nakase
- Swordplay Choreography Kazuhiro Hashimoto
- Movement Instructor Hiromi Tanabe
- Movement Instructor Yuki Fujisaka
Consultant
- Transportation Co-ordinator Mitsuru Nakakoji
- Transportation Co-ordinator Yoshio Fukui
- Dialect Coach Sumi Kanai
- Dialect Coach Takashi Ito
Publicity
- Advertising Producer Masahiro Yamanaka
- Publicity Junko Ikeda
- Publicity P2