Sword of the Beast (1965)

7.5/10 • 85 min • Action Drama

Overview

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

Yuuki Gennosuke

Gō Katō

Shima Iwashita

Kunie Tanaka

Eijirō Tōno

Toshie Kimura

Kantarō Suga

Yōko Mihara

Shigeru Amachi

Torahiko Hamada

Takeshi Katō

Katori

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