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Rating: 6 stars

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Japan sequel samurai ronin swordfight sword child decapitation

All movies seen on 03/26/2023

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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing (1964)

Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Drama | Action

Overview

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun’s monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he’s blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper’s mother is busy knocking off the shogun’s lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

Length 86 minutes

Actors

Raizō Ichikawa | Kyooko Azuma | Hajime Koshikawa | Jun Fujikawa | Takatsugu Fukui | Yuko Hamada | Seishirô Hara | Yukio Horikita | Shingo Hosotani | Haruki Ishimura | Yuriko Iwamura | Tadashi Iwata | Gen Kimura | Jun'ichirô Narita | Takamaru Sasaki | Kenjiro Uemura | Yôko Wakasugi | Saburo Date | Ryônosuke Azuma | Yûji Hamada | Masayoshi Kikuno | Taro Marui | Kaoru Miyoshi | Kôichi Mizuhara | Ikuko Môri | Shintarô Nanjô | Tokio Oki | Taizô Sengoku | Chizuko Takamori | Ikkei Tamaki

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Feels like a step down from the previous two films. Plus hard to go up after the quick draw duel in the first act. Still some quality moments even if the kid subplot didn’t do much for me.

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