HONORABLE PRIEST. CONFESSION OF A SAMURAI (2015). in Russian and Japanese with English Subtitles

HONORABLE PRIEST. CONFESSION OF A SAMURAI is a Russian feature film directed by Yegor Baranov and written by Ivan Okhlobystin and Roman Vladykin. The film was released on November 26, 2015. Distributor: Luxor Distribution. “Priest-san. Confession of a Samurai" is a project of the Orthodox film studio. Starring American actor of Japanese origin Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa . One of the film's screenwriters, Ivan Okhlobystin, played the main negative role in the film.
PLOT
The main character is Takuro Nakamura, baptized Father Nikolai (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) - a priest of the Japanese Orthodox Church , a former professional athlete, and in addition, the brother of the head of one of the influential yakuza clans Akimi Nakamura (Naoto Kanji). One day, three young yakuza from a clan hostile to the brother of the main character, meeting him on the street of a city at night, begin to mock him. The priest passes the test with honor and leaves, but he has to return: the trio attacked the girl. While protecting her, Father Nikolai inflicts significant damage - he breaks the nose and breaks the humerus - to one of the guys, the son of the head of the clan.

The father of the disgraced guy demands his brother's head from Takuro, but is refused. War between Yakuza factions is inevitable. After the shooting of Akimi's office and the death of innocent people, Father Nikolai's bishop sends him to serve in the Russian village of Glubokoe. When he arrives, the first people he meets are Blessed Makarka (Stepan Samoilenko), as the villagers affectionately call him, and his mother, Daria Makarova (Nadezhda Markina). Then the hero examines the destroyed church, where there have been no services for a long time. Here he meets an outwardly quite pleasant young man named Andrei Nelyubin ( Ivan Okhlobystin ), whom the villagers call their main benefactor. He has a dacha in Glubokoye. The priest has to spend the night with Shatun ( Peter Mamonov ). At night, Shatun wakes him up with a request to help - a building is burning on the Yakhontovs’ property, where they kept rabbits - the fire was destroying a small family business. During the extinguishing, a real drama plays out: while the villagers are trying to extinguish the flame, a drunken Petya Eremin ( Pyotr Fedorov ) crawls around the burning barn, almost on his hands and knees, and yells that this is what the Yakhontovs need. The head of the family, Konstantin Yakhontov ( Igor Zhizhikin ), cannot stand it and beats the unruly guy. A fight breaks out, a squad arrives, but for some reason they take away Chingizka (Aziz Rametov), ​​although the guy was simply breaking up the fighters. Father Nikolai was carefully watching what was happening all this time. He understands that where there is no church, there is no sweetness between people.

The priest begins to restore the church, and with it tries to “repair” relations between people. But it's not that simple. Father Nikolai hires Petya Eremin as his assistant so that he can help restore the church and not sit idle. On the first morning, Petya honestly comes and receives the money. But the next morning he no longer appears and Takuro himself goes to him. Women are crying on the porch - Lyuba Eremina (Daria Ekamasova) and Anna Yakhontova (Lyubov Tolkalina). And in the house, Konstantin Yakhontov, armed with a gun, tries to kill Eremin, accusing him of arson and missing children: Makarka and Katya Yakhontova (Alina Babak) did not return from their walk. At the moment when Yahontov is ready to pull the trigger, Nelyubin’s car appears out of nowhere, from which happy Makarka and Katya get out. Nelyubin explains that he met them on the road and took them for a walk. Everything worked out well, but Konstantin was taken to the police station. Eremin is going to write a statement against him. In the evening, Father Nikolai comes to Petya, asks to forgive Yakhontov and tells him his story. Eremin takes the application. Nelyubin is angry. Knowing about the inadequate reaction of Konstantin, a former military man who had visited hot spots, he specially adjusted the situation with the children: he needed to evict all the inhabitants from the village, since in its place there was a real treasure - a natural deposit of red clay. Nelyubin comes to Father Nikolai’s church, makes a scene and orders them to get out of the village. The priest, himself a former yakuza, is not afraid of threats.

During the celebration of Makarka's birthday, the priest is beaten by two local police officers working for Nelyubin. In the morning Makarka finds him. The priest is carried to his room. While the villagers are preparing water, rags and medicine, Makarka asks him to ring the bell that the men recently found in the forest - this is his dream. Father Nikolai promises that as soon as the bell is repaired, Makarka will fulfill his wish.

Nelyubin is ready to do anything to achieve his goal. Armed people come to Glubokoye. Nelyubin’s plan is simple: shoot the residents, burn Glubokoe, and then take the corpses home. A shootout ensues. While Yahontov and Shatun are shooting back from the bandits, the rest are running to the church to save themselves in its stone building. Makarka dies. The villagers, together with Father Nikolai, lock themselves in the church, but armed bandits led by Nelyubin make their way inside. The priest meets them face to face. He loudly orders the thugs to get out. They just laugh, but the huge bell, which the men of the village had recently hung, suddenly begins to ring, and then falls right on the heads of the uninvited guests. Yahontov rushes at Nelyubin, but the priest orders him not to kill him - that’s enough death already.

The film ends with the wedding of the Eremins - Lyuba is pregnant. Father Nikolai receives a letter saying that his brother has been killed. He quickly flies to Japan. At the airport he is met by the same son of the head of the hostile clan.