Movielogr
Kisaragi Sword (1962)
Directed by Yasushi Sasaki
Overview
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan’s corrupt Lord. It’s a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a sword instructor and a Lord who is disguised as a ronin since it is an executable offense for a lord to wander outside of their domain without permission. As the Chief Magistrate becomes suspicious of the Owari plot to send men to Kodenmacho Prison to start a riot he begins to investigate the rumors. He soon calls upon the Lord of Mikazuki Castle and the Shogun’s best friend to help thwart the evil ambitions and battle the rouge swordsman hired by the Owari Clan.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Utaemon Ichikawa | Kazuo Akatsuki | Kyôko Aoyama | Utanosuke Arashi | Masaji Arikawa | Koji Arima | Chiyonosuke Azuma | Kôtarô Bandô | Kensaku Hara | Kôshirô Harada | Masao Hori | Juro Hoshi | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Eijirô Kataoka | Hiroki Matsukata | Kôkichi Takada | Jûshirô Konoe | Kotaro Satomi | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Keiko Okawa | Hisako Tsukuba | Hiroko Yoshikawa | Isao Yamagata | Sonosuke Sawamura | Kazutarô Kuni | Shin Tokudaiji | Shinnosuke Ogata | Tetsunosuke Tsukigata | Seiji Môri | Eijirô Sekine | Ryûzaburô Nakamura | Yoshiko Yashioji | Otabe Michimaro | Jotaro Togami | Kinnosuke Takamatsu | Ryuichi Nagashima | Ikuo Oka | Ryôji Kôzuki | Matsunojō Sasaki | Shintaro Nasu | Shimada Hyōgo | Kenji Nagata | Yûzaburô Sakaguchi | Shintarô Kuraoka | Kyôichi Hara | Toshio Takane