Sword of the Beast

Sep 18, 1965

1h 25m

★ 7.4

Overview

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

Genres

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Haiyuza Theater Company

Shochiku

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Cast

Yuuki Gennosuke

Mikijiro Hira

Jurata Yamane

Gō Katō

Taka

Shima Iwashita

Tanji

Kunie Tanaka

Minister

Eijirō Tōno

Misa

Toshie Kimura

Daizaburo

Kantarō Suga

Osen

Yōko Mihara

Vice-Counselor

Shigeru Amachi

Torahiko Hamada

Hajime Araki

Tsuyoshi Date

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