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Samurai Wolf (1966)
Directed by Hideo Gosha
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This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Length 75 minutes
Actors
Isao Natsuyagi | Ryôhei Uchida | Toyoko Takechi | Junko Miyazono | Tatsuo Endô | Yoshirô Aoki | Junkichi Orimoto | Misako Tominaga | Kyôichi Satô | Takashi Tabata | Yuki Aresa | Ayako Satô | Rumiko Fuji | Akira Shioji | Daisuke Awaji | Hajime Miyazawa | Akira Hirasawa | Ryô Nishida | Hachirô Minamoto | Takeshi Kumagai | Hajime Nagoya | Gentarô Mori | Shintaro Nasu | Yukio Miyagi | Yasushi Ôki | Kenji Ikeda | Toshio Kitagawa | Tensaku Murata | Toshio Sugawara | Seiji Môri | Kuniomi Kitani | Sen Okaji | Takaya Shimoyama | Masaru Shiga | Tatsunori Koga | Shunji Sasaki
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/05/2023 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
This feels very much like a spaghetti western where almost everything and everyone is dirty in one way or another, doing away with the pomp and honor of many samurai films. There’s plenty of scheming, double crossing and revenge to go around with only our title character coming out of the mess with his honor still intact. The great black and white cinematography somehow serves to highlight the more realistic settings, mud, dirt and all. While I love many of the more stylized samurai films of the period, there’s always room for a film imbued with some gritty realism.
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