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The Last Samurai (1974)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Overview
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Length 159 minutes
Actors
Keiko Matsuzaka | Tôru Minegishi | Tôru Abe | Ken Ogata | Takahiro Tamura | Masaomi Kondo | Riki Harada | Kiwako Taichi | Taketoshi Naitô | Jûkei Fujioka | Kenji Imai | Hideki Takahashi | Hirokazu Inoue | Shunya Wazaki | Yukio Horikita | Teruhiko Saigô | Seishirô Hara | Reiko Kasahara | Asao Sano | Ryutaro Tatsumi | Kaori Taniguchi | Jiro Sakagami | Kentarô Imai | Akihiko Hanyû | Kôei Yamamoto | Toyoto Fukuda | Kenji Kimura | Chisato Aoki | Sōnosuke Oda | Jun Kashima | Natsuko Oka | Hideaki Komori | Hinode Nishikawa | Taro Jin | Kunji Harada | Seiichi Yoshida | Ayako Honami | Terumitsu Kawashima | Ryûsuke Kita | Hideto Nakagawa | Taku Kido | Shuichi Oki | Takuya Shiba | Kenji Sonoda