Desc: Tateshi Danpei: Directed by Shunkai Mizuho. With Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Miwa Takada. The remake of a Akira Kurosawa script is based on the story of the actual figure Ichikawa Danpei who was a tateshi, or fencing instructor and choreographer, in Japan in the Taisho era at the beginning of the twentieth century. The sword fighting style of the man is less and less in demand as the years progress, tastes change and more realism is called for.