The Phoenix

🎭 Genres:Adventure, Animation, Action

⭐️ Actors:Jun Fubuki, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari, Kaoru Yumi

🌍 Country:Japan

📅 Year:1978

🎬 Director:Kon Ichikawa

📝 Description:This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.