Sword for Hire (1952)
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Director:
Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers:
Hiroshi Inagaki, Akira Kurosawa.
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Rentaro Mikuni as Tachibana Jurata |
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Toshirō Mifune as Sasa Hayatenosuke |
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Danshirō Ichikawa as Kagami Yakeiji |
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Yoshiko Yamaguchi as Oryo |
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Takashi Shimura as |
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Shinobu Asaji as Kano |
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Yoshio Kosugi as |
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Sugisaku Aoyama as |
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Eijirō Tōno as |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as |
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Kokuten Kōdō as |
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Kichijirō Ueda as |
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Eiko Miyoshi as |
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Haruo Nakajima as |
| Directing | Hiroshi Inagaki | Director |
| Writing | Yasushi Inoue | Novel |
| Writing | Hiroshi Inagaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Art | Takeo Kita | Production Design |
| Camera | Tadashi Iimura | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ikuma Dan | Original Music Composer |
