Toshiaki Toyoda
Director


In a biopic the audience sees the story of Segawa "Shottan" Shoji who fails to become a professional in shogi by the age of twenty six, which is the age limit according to the rules of the sport. However, not wanting to give up and persisting the man attempts to become a professional at age thirty five. The motivational story of a man going up against the rules and challenging himself despite the system and the establishment is cast with multiple stars of contemporary Japanese cinema.
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Toshiaki Toyoda
Director

Ryûhei Matsuda
Shoji Segawa
Yôjirô Noda
Yuya Suzuki
Shizuka Ishibashi
Sakiko Minami

Kaoru Kobayashi
Mamoru Fujita
Ryusuke Komakine
Ryoichi Hatanaka

Jun Kunimura
Toshio

Takako Matsu
Yoshiko Kajima

Masaki Naito
Salaryman

Issei Ogata
Kazuo Kudo

Eita Okuno
Manabu Ikeda

Taichi Saotome
Daisuke Kato

Kento Nagayama
Kazumasa Shindo

Hirofumi Arai
Mata Kiyoshi
Jun Miho
Chikako
Toshiaki Toyoda
Writer
Shôji Segawa
Writer