Hideo Gosha's directorial film debut.
This film is part of the jidai-geki genre. Translated this means 'period drama', and such films are usually set during the Edo Period of Japanese history.
This film is an offshoot and origin story of a popular Japanese television programme by the same name.
This is a chanbara (sword fighting) film.
In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2017, Rian Johnson stated that this film was one of his inspirations when he was writing 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'.