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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
Hideki Takahashi | Ken Ogata | Teruhiko Saigô | Masaomi Kondo | Keiko Matsuzaka | Kiwako Taichi | Asao Sano | Ayako Honami | Tôru Minegishi | Takahiro Tamura | Taketoshi Naitô | Jûkei Fujioka | Kenji Imai | Tôru Abe | Shunya Wazaki | Toyoto Fukuda | Hinode Nishikawa | Taro Jin | Chisato Aoki | Reiko Kasahara | Kaori Taniguchi | Ryutaro Tatsumi | Jiro Sakagami | Hirokazu Inoue | Kunji Harada | Riki Harada | Jun Kashima | Kentarô Imai | Ryûsuke Kita | Hideaki Komori | Taku Kido | Hideto Nakagawa | Shuichi Oki | Sōnosuke Oda | Kenji Sonoda | Takuya Shiba | Terumitsu Kawashima | Seishirô Hara | Yukio Horikita | Seiichi Yoshida | Kôei Yamamoto | Kenji Kimura | Akihiko Hanyû | Natsuko Oka