Sword of the Beast
1965•1h 25m•7.5•Released
ActionDrama
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Director
Hideo Gosha
Writer
Hideo Gosha, Eizaburo Shiba
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Haiyuza Theater Company
Cast
Mikijiro Hira
Yuuki Gennosuke
Gō Katō
Jurata Yamane
Shima Iwashita
Taka
Kunie Tanaka
Tanji
Eijirō Tōno
Minister
Toshie Kimura
Misa
Kantarō Suga
Daizaburo
Yōko Mihara
Osen
Shigeru Amachi
Vice-Counselor
Torahiko Hamada
Hajime Araki
Tsuyoshi Date
Tôru Hatozaki
Takeshi Katō
Katori
Mikio Maejima
Production
Company
Haiyuza Theater Company
Company
Shochiku
Company
Haiyu-za Film Production Company Ltd.
Producer
Gin'ichi Kishimoto
Producer
Masayuki Satō
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