85 minutes
Sword of the Beast (1965)
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.
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.
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Cast
Yuuki Gennosuke
Mikijiro Hira
Jurata Yamane
Gō Katō
Taka
Shima Iwashita
Tanji
Kunie Tanaka
Minister
Eijirō Tōno
Misa
Toshie Kimura
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Languages
Japanese
Release date
18 September 1965
Directors
Hideo Gosha
Genres
Action & Adventure, Drama
TMDB Rating
7.5
Runtime
85 mins
Sword of the Beast is an Action & Adventure film directed by Hideo Gosha and starring Mikijiro Hira and Gō Katō. It has a runtime of 85 minutes and a high TMDB audience rating of 7.5 from 60 votes.
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