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Sword of the Beast (1965)
Directed by Hideo Gosha
Action, Drama · 1h 25m
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.
Cast
Mikijiro Hira
Gō Katō
Shima Iwashita
Kunie Tanaka
Eijirō Tōno
Toshie Kimura
Kantarō Suga
Yōko Mihara
Shigeru Amachi
Torahiko Hamada
Crew
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
- Writer
- Hideo Gosha, Eizaburo Shiba
- Director of Photography
- Toshitada Tsuchiya
- Original Music Composer
- Toshiaki Tsushima
- Producer
- Gin'ichi Kishimoto, Masayuki Satō
Details
- Original title
- 獣の剣
- Release date
- 1965-09-18
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Haiyuza Theater Company, Shochiku, Haiyu-za Film Production Company Ltd.