The Last Revenge (2011)
Original title: 遺恨あり 明治十三年 最後の仇討
The Last Revenge is a 2011 Japanese-language movie directed by Takashi Minamoto, with a running time of 2h. It stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Nao Matsushita and Yukiyoshi Ozawa.
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.