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Sword of the Beast (1965)

Directed by Hideo Gosha

Action | Thriller

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Overview

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.

Length 85 minutes

Actors

Mikijiro Hira | Gô Katô | Shima Iwashita | Kunie Tanaka | Eijirô Tôno | Toshie Kimura | Kantarô Suga | Yôko Mihara | Shigeru Amachi | Torahiko Hamada | Hajime Araki | Tsuyoshi Date | Tôru Hatozaki | Takeshi Katô | Mikio Maejima | Kappei Matsumoto | Hajime Miyazawa | Kôtarô Mori | Yasushi Nagata | Katsue Nitta | Jun Ooi | Kyôichi Satô | Ginzô Sekiguchi | Kôji Tsutsui | Noboru Umezawa | Kiyoshi Yamamoto | Sen Yano | Hisashi Yokomori

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Viewing Notes

Hideo Gosha master class. Love everything here. Excellent performances across the board. Mikijiro Hira is perfect as the reluctant hero. Nice role for Shima Iwashita as well as the conflicted wife of Jurata. Once again Kunie Tanaka turns in a memorable supporting character.

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