Goemon (2009) on Netflix
Goemon Ishikawa robs the rich to help the poor. A festival raid on a treasure repository leaves him with a box foreigners call Pandora's Box, and he escapes the samurai Ishida Mitsunari.
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Plot summary
Orphaned in the Sengoku period when his family is killed, Goemon Ishikawa is taken in by the warlord Oda Nobunaga and trained as a ninja by Hattori Hanzō alongside Kirigakure Saizō. He guards Nobunaga's niece, Chacha, until Nobunaga is murdered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide, after which Goemon leaves the clan while Saizo remains in its service. Years later Goemon lives as an outlaw, with the inexperienced bounty hunter Sarutobi Sasuke as his attendant. During a festival he robs a treasure repository and carries off a mysterious box that foreigners call Pandora's Box. Ishida Mitsunari, a samurai who serves Hideyoshi, arrives to destroy the box, and Goemon gets away with it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Goemon (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Goemon is loosely based on Ishikawa Goemon, a legendary outlaw hero who stole valuables from the rich and gave them to the poor, and the film follows his role in the final phase of the Sengoku period leading up to the decisive Battle of Sekigahara.
- Like director Kazuaki Kiriya's earlier film Casshern, Goemon was shot on a digital backlot and made use of more than 2,500 visual effects.
