斬る
Also known as Kiru
is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi () in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto.
Film · TMDB
7.0A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Released: 1968-06-22114 minDir: Kihachi OkamotoAction, Comedy
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Genta
- Etsushi Takahashi as Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)
- Yuriko Hoshi as Chino Kajii
- Tadao Nakamaru as Magobei Shôda
- Akira Kubo as Monnosuke Takei
- Shigeru Kōyama as Tamiya Ayuzawa
Themes
- samurai