Samurai Hustle

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| name = Samurai Hustle

| image = Samurai Hustle poster.jpeg

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| caption = Poster

| director = Katsuhide Motoki

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| starring = Kuranosuke Sasaki
Kyoko Fukada
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Yasufumi Terawaki
Yusuke Kamiji
Yuri Chinen
Tokio Emoto
Takanori Jinnai
Masahiko Nishimura

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| released = {{Film date|2014|6|21|Japan|df=y}}

| runtime = 119 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

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| gross = ¥1.55 billion (Japan)

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{{Nihongo|Samurai Hustle (lit. Mission Impossible: Samurai)|超高速!参勤交代|Chōkōsoku! Sankin Kōtai}} is a 2014 Japanese jidaigeki comedy film directed by Katsuhide Motoki and starring Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyoko Fukada and Tsuyoshi Ihara. It was released on 21 June 2014.{{cite web |url= http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=347552|script-title=ja:超高速!参勤交代(2014)|accessdate= 26 June 2014|work= allcinema|publisher= Stingray|language= Japanese}}

It featured in the Japanese Film Festival in Australia in 2014 under the name Samurai Hustle.{{cite web |url=http://japanesefilmfestival.net/jff_movie/samurai-hustle/|script-title=ja:Samurai Hustle (超高速!参勤交代)|accessdate= 25 Jan 2015}} The film made its Los Angeles premiere at LA Eigafest 2014.

It was followed by 2016's Samurai Hustle Returns.

Cast

Reception

The film initially grossed ¥900 million in Japan.{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/maleficent-dethrones-frozen-in-japan|title= Maleficent dethrones Frozen in Japan|author= Kevin Ma|date= 2014-07-08|accessdate= 2014-07-08|work= Film Business Asia|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140714075834/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/maleficent-dethrones-frozen-in-japan|archivedate= 2014-07-14}} Its final box office tally was ¥1.55 billion yen.Eiren, "Box Office Statistics for 2014 in Japan." http://www.eiren.org/boxoffice_e/2014.html Accessed 2020-07-27

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