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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure (1964)

Directed by Kenji Misumi

Action | Drama

Overview

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate’s tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who’s earned the wrath of the shogun’s self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off—along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.

Length 83 minutes

Actors

Raizō Ichikawa | Kôichi Aihara | San'emon Arashi | Okuzan Asao | Jun Fujikawa | Shiho Fujimura | Hajime Koshikawa | Yutaro Gomi | Yuko Hamada | Shinjirô Asano | Ryûtarô Gomi | Seishirô Hara | Yukio Horikita | Kinya Ichikawa | Tadashi Iwata | Kenichi Kagami | Yoshi Katô | Masayoshi Kikuno | Gen Kimura | Keiko Koyanagi | Naoko Kubo | Kôichi Mizuhara | Shintarô Nanjô | Jun'ichirô Narita | Matasaburô Niwa | Akira Shiga | Fujio Suga | Mitsuhiro Sugiyama | Kimiko Tachibana | Miwa Takada | Ikkei Tamaki | Akihisa Toda

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Ideal daytime viewing! So amusing to always have some dudes that think they’ve figured out how to beat Kyoshiro’s fullmoon attack and still get beat. Easy to see why Raizo Ishikawa was a big movie star; he’s very much a Steve McQueen type in this series.

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