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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 06/18/2018

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Daredevil in the Castle (1961)

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Action | War

Overview

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei’s daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.

Length 95 minutes

Actors

Toshirō Mifune | Kyôko Kagawa | Yuriko Hoshi | Yoshiko Kuga | Isuzu Yamada | Yōsuke Natsuki | Jun Tazaki | Akihiko Hirata | Takashi Shimura | Tadao Nakamaru | Tetsurō Tamba | Danko Ichikawa | Koedako Kuroiwa | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Yû Fujiki | Seizaburô Kawazu | Susumu Fujita | Hanshiro Iwai | Sachio Sakai | Yoshio Kosugi | Kichijirô Ueda | Ren Yamamoto | Chieko Nakakita | Haruko Tôgô | Hideyo Amamoto | Jun'ichirô Mukai | Shirô Tsuchiya | Akira Tani | Shin Ôtomo | Katsumi Tezuka | Senkichi Ômura | Ikio Sawamura | Kôji Uno | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Haruo Nakajima | Hans Horneff | Bill Bassman | Toshiko Nakano | Osman Yusuf | Shigeki Ishida | Takuzô Kumagai | Ryû Kuze | Tadashi Okabe | Yû Sekita | Seiji Ikeda

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

This movie kicked off Yuriko Hoshi week on DKU-TV (formerly TKU-TV). She passed away when they were on break (rebranding) so now they’re doing a tribute week of her films. I was happy they programmed this one bc it’s another who’s who of Toho Studios at the time (men, mostly) with Mifune as the reluctant hero. Of course this is also a film that hasn’t had a proper home video release outside the grey market.

Oddly enough Yuriko is barely seen in the film having smallish role despite being billed after Mifune and Kyoko Kagawa. Always great to see Hideyo Amamoto even in a bit part as the translator here. Given the pedigree of talent on hand (including an upbeat score by Akira Ifukube) this movie deserves to be restored and released.

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