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The Great Duel (1964)
Directed by Eiichi Kudo
Overview
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun’s brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
Length 118 minutes
Actors
Tôru Abe | Mikijiro Hira | Yoshio Inaba | Chiezô Kataoka | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Nami Munakata | Kotaro Satomi | Minoru Oki | Shirô Ôsaka | Hideo Sunazuka | Rinichi Yamamoto | Kôshirô Harada | Yuriko Mishima | Kayako Sono | Shunji Kasuga | Masahiko Naruse | Kiyoshi Kachi | Masao Hori | Kenji Kusumoto | Hiroshi Katô | Kazutarô Kuni | Shinnosuke Ogata | Harue Yasuki | Haruhiko Nishi | Kyôichi Hara | Kenji Egi | Masataka Iwao | Shôtarô Kizuki | Hajime Nagoya | Reiichi Hatanaka | Kunijirô Yanagi | Ryutaro Otomo