Goblin's Highway

Oct 8, 1957

1h 28m

★ 0.0

Overview

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he gets into a fight with local bad bosses who behave badly on the Tokaido road in the Kiso Valley.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Ryutaro Otomo

Kōtarō Satomi

Kogiku Hanayagi

Satomi Oka

Isao Yamagata

Kunio Kaga

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Kensaku Hara

Eitarō Shindō

Yoshio Yoshida

Kusuo Abe

Eiko Maruyama

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.

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7.2

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