Wine Road of the Samurai

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Wine Road of the Samurai ワイン大国を夢見た男達～侍達のワインロード～
Shin Koyamada Poster Shot
Starring	Shin Koyamada
Country of origin	Japan
Language(s)	English Japanese French Arabic
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kenichi Hara Shin Koyamada Shinji Yamada
Running time	90 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	JNN Network
Original run	March 21, 2006 –
Links
Official website
IMDb profile

Wine Road of The Samurai is feature documentary film based on a true story about a 34 Samurai in 1863. It was directed by Sone Eiji and starred Shin Koyamada as Himself and Narrator. This national TV show was distributed 28 TV Stations, including Tokyo Broadcasting System thoughout Japan on March 21st, 2006.

1 Plot Summery
2 Locations
3 Cast
4 Crew
5 Trivia
6 Distribution
7 Sponsors
8 External Links

[edit] Plot Summery

This documentary is about a 34 Samurai (who were also known as The Last Samurais) delegation sent by the Japanese government to France at the end of Edo era. They were sent to help solve diplomatic problems between Japan and Europe on December 29th, 1863. At the time, Japan closed all of its ports. The Samurai were welcomed by every government they visited, including Napoleon III, in France. They were also photographed standing in front of Sphinx, in Egypt. The Samurai brought back lots of products from their trip including a book on producing wine. They ended their expedition earlier than expected due to the need to report home about the astonishing technology in modernizing countries.

[edit] Locations

[edit] Cast

Shin Koyamada — Himself, Narrator

[edit] Crew

Directed by: Eiji Sone
Executive Produced by: Kenichi Hara
Executive producer by: Shin Koyamada
Produced by: Eiji Sone
Produced by: Shinji Yamada

[edit] Trivia

34 Samurai in front of Sphinx in 1863

This TV show took a year to finish filming all over the countries and was the first feature documentary filming in different countries such as Egypt, France, and many different locations in Japan by JNN Network and Tokyo Broadcasting System.
Director Eiji Sone shot a total footage of about 300 hours.
Shin Koyamada lives in Los Angeles so he had to fly to Japan to film the TV show for 3 or four times.
Director Eiji Sone met Shin Koyamada in Okayama, Japan. But, concidently Shin Koyamada had met Eiji Sone's son 10 years ago from an International Exchange Program trip to Brisbane, Australia.