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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger (1958)
Directed by Tadashi Sawashima
Overview
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi’s fiancee, Otoyo, was a chambermaid whom Kawakatsu abducted in order to make her his concubine and Tasuke feels compelled to right this wrong. Meanwhile Kawakatsu is dealing in black-market lumber and receiving kick-backs but unbeknownst to him he is under investigation by Lord Izu, one of the Shogun Elders. Will Tasuke be able to rescue Otoyo from the clutches of Lord Kawakatsu and can Lord Izu put an end to his money hungry evildoings.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Hitomi Nakahara | Ryûnosuke Tsukigata | Satomi Oka | Kensaku Hara | Shunji Sakai | Hiroko Sakuramachi | Isao Yamagata | Eitarô Shindô | Haruo Tanaka | Sonosuke Sawamura | Ryuko Azuma | Kanji Koshiba | Kunio Kaga | Kodayu Ichikawa | Sôji Kiyokawa | Kyoji Sugi | Juro Hoshi | Kiyoshi Sawada | Shinji Oda