The peasant who out-smarted samurai economics — 600 villages saved, zero swords drawn.
Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.
Acting
Goda's physical transformation from boy to revered elder.
Production
Painstaking period detail in rural village reconstruction.
Director
Shō Igarashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Masashi Goda spent months learning abacus technique to perform Ninomiya's calculations on camera without cuts.
Ninomiya Kinjirou remains on Japan's 1,000-yen note — this film coincided with his 230th birth anniversary.
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