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Secret of Naruto (1957)
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Overview
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Chikage Awashima | Toshio Chiba | Kazuo Hasegawa | Raizō Ichikawa | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Satoko Minami | Osamu Takizawa | Fujiko Yamamoto | Narutoshi Hayashi | Nobuo Nakamura | Masao Shimizu | Kappei Matsumoto | Kinzô Shin | Shôsaku Sugiyama | Toshio Hosokawa | Kanji Koshiba | Sonosuke Sawamura | Shinobu Araki | Shintarô Nanjô | Seishirô Hara | Saburo Date | Fujio Harumoto | Fumihiko Yokoyama | Ikkei Tamaki | Sumao Ishihara | Jun Fujikawa | Yukio Horikita