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Sword of the Beast
Sword of the Beast

Sword of the Beast

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

85 mins

Rating

7.5/10

Release Date

18 September 1965

Country

Japan

Cast

Mikijiro Hira

Mikijiro Hira

Yuuki Gennosuke

Gō Katō

Gō Katō

Jurata Yamane

Shima Iwashita

Shima Iwashita

Taka

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka

Tanji

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

Minister

Toshie Kimura

Toshie Kimura

Misa

Kantarō Suga

Kantarō Suga

Daizaburo

Yōko Mihara

Yōko Mihara

Osen

Shigeru Amachi

Shigeru Amachi

Vice-Counselor

Torahiko Hamada

Torahiko Hamada

Hajime Araki

Hajime Araki

Tsuyoshi Date

Tsuyoshi Date

Tôru Hatozaki

Tôru Hatozaki

Takeshi Katō

Takeshi Katō

Katori

Mikio Maejima

Mikio Maejima

Kappei Matsumoto

Kappei Matsumoto

Hajime Miyazawa

Hajime Miyazawa

Kôtarô Mori

Kôtarô Mori

Yasushi Nagata

Yasushi Nagata

Katsue Nitta

Katsue Nitta

Jun Ooi

Jun Ooi

Kyōichi Satō

Kyōichi Satō

Ginzô Sekiguchi

Ginzô Sekiguchi

Kôji Tsutsui

Kôji Tsutsui

Noboru Umezawa

Noboru Umezawa

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Sen Yano

Sen Yano

Hisashi Yokomori

Hisashi Yokomori

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