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Sword for Hire (1952)
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Drama, Action, Adventure · 2h 15m
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Toshirō Mifune
Danshirō Ichikawa
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Takashi Shimura
Shinobu Asaji
Yoshio Kosugi
Eijirō Tōno
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Kokuten Kōdō
Kichijirō Ueda
Crew
- Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Screenplay
- Hiroshi Inagaki, Akira Kurosawa
- Novel
- Yasushi Inoue
- Director of Photography
- Tadashi Iimura
- Original Music Composer
- Ikuma Dan
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- 戦国無頼
- Release date
- 1952-05-22
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Adventure
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO