Keanu Reeves Describes Samurai Film ‘47 Ronin’ A Quasi-Western About “Revenge And Impossible Love”
By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 12:00 pm EST
Rinsch tells MTV:
Screenwriter Morgan has previously described the plot as follows:
It’s in 3D. It’s kind of a western. I call it a story of revenge and impossible love. The samurai become ronin, outcast, and decide to enact revenge on the person who is responsible for the death of their lord. And I play an outsider, a kind of half-breed with a mysterious past named Kai, who’s in love with the princess and she’s in love with me, but we can’t be together. But during this journey and revenge, things change.
“It’s a time in Japanese culture when it was all about [the] bushido [code] and honor, and putting internal things over external things – swords that were made to be functional instead of ornamental, that kind of stuff,” Morgan previously told MTV. “this turning point in the culture when that started to shift. Society started to be more about external kind of things. The story is about these samurai whose lord is killed in an unfair way.”
47 Ronin will be released in theaters in 3D on Wednesday, November 21, 2012.
