The film "Priest-san": actors, roles, plot and reviews. Actors and the role of the film "Priest-san. Confession of the Samurai"

In 2015 the most ambiguous Russian picture "Priest-san" appeared on the screens. Actors in the project were mostly Russian, but the main role went to the Japanese star of militants - Hiroyuki Tagave. What is this film about, and who made it?

The creators of the picture

Ivan Okhlobystin is known in the Russian film industry not only as an artist, but also as a screenwriter. It was he who came up with the idea of making a film about a Japanese who adopted Orthodoxy. So there was a script for the picture "Priest-san."

Actors for the main and secondary roles were invited fairly well-known. Yegor Baranov, who is known for his directorial works on tapes "Locusts", "Fartsa" and "Gogol", sat in the director's chair.

Behind the camera was Yuri Korobeinikov, who removed the "Method", "Locust" and "Nightingale the Robber".

Lyubov Kalinskaya ("The Case of Batagami") and Grant Palagayev ("In the Barefoot Sky") appeared as producers.

The drama was released in November 2015.

Short story

Actors of the film "Priest-san: Samurai Confession" played an amazing story on the screens. The protagonist is an ambiguous personality: Takuro Nakamura, in the past a very successful athlete, is now a priest of the Japanese branch of the Orthodox Church, and, in combination, the brother of the head of the clan of the mafia.

Once on the street a priest is attacked by a yakuza from a hostile clan. He does not want to join them in battle, but the young people decided to make fun of the girl passing by. Quietly watch this Takuro could not, so got into a fight and caused serious damage to one of the bandits, who turned out to be the son of an influential person.

In order not to complicate the situation, Takuro Nakamura goes to the Russian heartland - to raise the local church there. However, Father Nicholas is facing a more serious problem - rassopasannymi local residents, with whom it is difficult to find a common language. Moreover, even here the former yakuza has to get involved in the dismantling of bandits and defend the lives of ordinary people.

"Priest-san": actors. Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa as Father Nicholas

The role of Nikolai's father, a Japanese by birth, is rather complicated in execution. She had to go to a completely exceptional person. The actor who starred in the film "Priest-san," is one. It's about actor Carey Tagawa - a star of Hollywood insurgents.

All the facts in the biography of Carey Tagawa intertwine in an unthinkable tangle. He was born in Japan and is a purebred Japanese. When the boy was five years old, his family moved to the States. There, Tagawa was carried away by martial arts. At about 37, Carey decided to become an actor. First, he starred in various TV series, playing mostly negative characters: "Miami police", "Rescuers Malibu", "Space rescuers". The actor also had a place in full-length serious films: "The Last Emperor", "Pearl Harbor", "Phantom", "Planet of the Apes".

The most famous works Tagava last years are the projects "Electra", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Hatiko", "47 roninov" and the role of the second plan in the series "Hawaii 5-0".

The role of Nicholas Nakamura was as if created for Tagava. He also devoted many years of his life to sports, and in old age was baptized in one of the churches in Moscow, while simultaneously asking for Russian citizenship.

Actors and the role of the film "Priest-san. Confessions of a Samurai: Ivan Okhlobystin as Andrei Nelyubin

Ivan Okhlobystin in his own project took himself the role of the main antagonist - Andrei Nelyubin. As soon as Father Nikolay arrives in the village of Glubokoe, he hears of Nelyubin that he is a "local benefactor".

But over time, the hero of Okhlobystin shows his true face: it turns out that he is squandering the few villagers among themselves so that in the end they all go about killing or killing each other, and in the place of their houses it would be possible to develop a deposit of red clay.

However, Father Nicholas, trying to reconcile his fellow villagers, destroys all the plans of Nelyubin. Then the bandit goes to extreme measures: he is declared in the village together with armed people and plan to simply shoot them. Just here he has on his way and there is a former yakuza and athlete - Takuro Nakamura.

Ivan Okhlobystin is also an ambiguous person. Everyone knows that a successful actor, who had a good career in the 1990s, gave up everything and went to serve as a priest in the church. Then Ivan asked to be removed from the service and again returned to the screens. To date, he is known for his roles in many popular projects.

Peter Mamonov as the Shatun

In the picture "Priest-san: Confession of the Samurai" actors Peter Mamonov, Lyubov Tolkalina and many others played the residents of the village of Glubokoe. The chaplet performed by Peter hosted a new priest from Japan and provided him with all kinds of help and support.

Peter Mamonov is not inferior in any way to the shockingness of Okhlobystin and Tagava. He is a rock musician, leader of the group "Sounds of Mu". In combination he plays in the cinema and at the theater.

His career in film musician began with the role of a drug supplier in the legendary "Needle" with Viktor Tsoi. Then there was the role of saxophonist in the drama "Taxi-blues", and the role was the main one.

In the 91st, together with Zhanna Moro, Mamonov plays in Anna Karamazoff. After years of lull, director Pavel Lungin returned Peter to the screens in his film "Island" in 2006. He also played a criminal role in the TV series "Ashes", where he had a chance to work with Vladimir Mashkov and Yevgeny Mironov.

Igor Zhizhikin as Konstantin

Actors of the film "Priest-Sun" are known in their own way in certain circles. Love Tolkalina - lovers of TV shows. And Igor Zhizhikin - lovers of the television show "In a black-black room ..." and those who follow the career of Russian actors in Hollywood.

Igor Zhizhikin left for the states in 1989. There in the 98th he entered the theater school, and a year later appeared in the film "The Dark Star and Arsen".

In 2002, Zhizhikin played in the multi-part film "Spy" with Jennifer Garner in the title role. In the same year Igor appeared in Clint Eastwood's thriller Bloody Work. The actor also starred in the films Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Ruslan and Black Mark.

Love Tolkalina in the role of Anna

In the film "Priest-san: Confession of the Samurai" actors like Lubov Tolkalina and Nadezhda Markina received supporting roles. In the heroine of Tolkalina, there is not even a screen biography as such. She simply played a resident of the village deep Anna Yakhontova, daughter of the former military Constantine Yakhontov.

Love Tolkalina has been acting in films since the late 90's. At first, they were episodic roles in TV series, then in television films, the actress began to get the main roles. In the filmography of Tolkalina are listed projects "Antikiller", "Talisman of Love", "Escape" and "Moscow, I Love You!".

Other performers of roles

In the picture "Priest-san" the actors Nadezhda Markina, Pyotr Fedorov and Lyudmila Chursina also received the roles.

Nadezhda Markina is known to the audience for minor roles in the projects "Kamenskaya", "Marsh Turetskogo" and "Swordsman". During the Soviet era, the actress practically did not act.

Lyudmila Chursina, in contrast, was incredibly popular and played many roles in Soviet films. Among her works are the paintings "Don story", "Shield and sword", "Ugryum River", "Love Yarovaya" and others. In our days, Chursina is doing a lot on TV series.

Peter Fedorov - a promising artist, a representative of the younger generation. Distinguished roles in the films "PyramMMida", "Take Tarantino" and "Inhabited Island".