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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman (1969)
Directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
Drama, Action, Adventure · 1h 28m
A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.
Cast
Yōko Matsuyama
Chizuko Arai
Jun Tatara
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Akitake Kōno
Misako Tominaga
Bin Amatsu
Keiko Koyanagi
Crew
- Director
- Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Screenplay
- Ikuro Suzuki, Hajime Takaiwa, Ichirō Miyagawa
- Director of Photography
- Shintarō Kawasaki
- Original Music Composer
- Hajime Kaburagi
- Editor
- Katsumi Kawai
Details
- Original title
- めくらのお市物語 真赤な流れ鳥
- Release date
- 1969-03-15
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Adventure
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku Kyoto