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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)

Directed by Tomu Uchida

Drama | Comedy | Adventure

Overview

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.

Length 94 minutes

Actors

Chiezô Kataoka | Ryûnosuke Tsukigata | Chizuru Kitagawa | Yuriko Tashiro | Motoharu Ueki | Chie Ueki | Eitarô Shindô | Daisuke Katô | Unpei Yokoyama | Toranosuke Ogawa | Kunio Kaga | Eijirô Kataoka | Kyoji Sugi | Atsushi Watanabe | Kumiko Mayama | Yoshio Yoshida | Kinnosuke Takamatsu | Kakuzo Iida | Kazuo Tokita | Masao Oda | Harue Akagi | Koji Arima | Ryûtarô Aoyagi | Tominosuke Hayama | Osamu Koganei | Kajô Onoe | Kenji Kusumoto | Kyôichi Hara | Masao Katô | Mitsuo Asano | Hideo Higashi | Hideo Shimada | Michikazu Kawamura | Fujiya Ishimaru | Masaharu Nakano | Ayako Hidaka | Shizuka Chifune | Hachiro Yamauchi

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is a road movie that starts out lighthearted and goofy at times and gets more serious as it goes until it culminates in a tragedy.

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