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Plot summary
In the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan, where rival warlords battle. He wages war against several clans. He dangles the promise of succession before his generals, saying his son Nobutada is not fit to follow him. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and vanishes. Nobunaga orders Akechi Mitsuhide to capture and execute Murashige. Hashiba Hideyoshi, one of Nobunaga's officers, presents himself as deferential and harmless. The peasant Naniwa Mosuke, once a thief, seeks a place among the samurai.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kubi (2023)
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- Kubi's production was suspended in August 2022 while the editing was nearly 90% complete, after a contract dispute between Takeshi Kitano and Kadokawa; Kadokawa had sought additional funding from Netflix and Kitano demanded a portion of it for himself.
- Takeshi Kitano conceived Kubi around the time of his early film Sonatine (1993), and it took him 30 years to get it made; he said it finally came together once he could gather talented actors in the Kitano-group.
