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In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.Read moreLess
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
The story
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
Cast & crew
Toshirō MifuneYojimbo
Yūjirō IshiharaYataro
Ruriko AsaokaOkuni
Shintarō KatsuGentetsu
Kinnosuke NakamuraHeima Ibuki
Chūsha IchikawaUnknown Samurai
Ichirō ArishimaTokubei
Yoshio TsuchiyaItahachi
Jotaro TogamiGonji
Chieko NakakitaCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Yamada
- Writer
- Hideo Oguni
- Writer
- Ichirō Miyagawa
- Writer
- Hajime Takaiwa
- Editor
- Yoshihiro Araki
- Producer
- Yoshio Nishikawa
- Producer
- Toshirō Mifune
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō