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The Lightning Sword

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Calorie Rating: 100
Released: 1962-12-08
Running Time: 71 Minutes
Studios: Daiei Film,


Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

Director / Directors

Bin Kato
Director


Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama
Character: Shinjiro of Misaki
Shigeru Amachi
Character: Higashinosuke Yamagata
Ryûzô Shimada
Character: Tokusaburō

Mieko Kondō
Character: Oyo
Eigorō Onoe
Character: Yamagoro
Jun'ichirō Narita
Character: Asanosuke

Chitose Maki
Character: Orryu
Reiko Fujiwara
Character: Kaede / Fumie
Yūji Nanto
Character: Takuro

Ikuko Mōri
Character: Oharu
Toshio Chiba
Character: Tomizo




Production and Crew

Minoru Inuzuka
Screenplay

Shozo Honda
Director of Photography
Sakae Nagaoka
Sound Recordist
Shigeru Katô
Art Direction

Nakaba Takahashi
Original Music Composer