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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Mikijiro HiraYuuki Gennosuke
Gō KatōJurata Yamane
Shima IwashitaTaka
Kunie TanakaTanji
Eijirō TōnoMinister
Toshie KimuraMisa
Kantarō SugaDaizaburo
Yōko MiharaOsen
Shigeru AmachiVice-Counselor
Torahiko HamadaCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
- Writer
- Hideo Gosha
- Writer
- Eizaburo Shiba
- Original Music Composer
- Toshiaki Tsushima
- Producer
- Gin'ichi Kishimoto
- Producer
- Masayuki Satō
- Director of Photography
- Toshitada Tsuchiya