Denshichi Torimonocho: Senryo Human Skin (1954)
In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emerged in Edo. Shippu would send a warning message called the "Thief's Summons" before striking, yet despite the magistrate's desperate search efforts, they couldn't find any leads. One day, a summons was shot into the residence of Ono Ryusai, who was leading a peaceful retirement life with his two concubines, O-Ran and O-Koshi. With the summons, various individuals including O-Ran's brother Itami Shigoshiro, the master of the Muso-ryu dojo, vigilante Mankichiro, rope expert Gohei, and Den'ichi from Kuromon Town were assigned to monitor the situation. However, while they were distracted by a neighboring fire, a chest containing a thousand ryo was stolen, and O-Koshi was killed.
Director: Sadatsugu Matsuda
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Kōkichi Takada as 黒門町の伝七 |
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Kenji Susukida as 池の端の万五郎 |
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Yumeji Tsukioka as お俊 |
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Eiji Wakasugi as 遠山左衛門尉 |
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Junzaburō Ban as 獅子ッ鼻の竹 |
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Shuhei Yamada as 三下の紋吉 |
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Yoshito Yamaji as 早縄の五兵衛 |
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Masao Aoyama as 三太 |
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Akira Nishioka as 吉次 |
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Masao Mishima as 大野柳斉 |
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Yoshiko Fujishiro as お越 |
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Yumiko Hasegawa as お蘭 |
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Jūshirō Konoe as 伊丹重四郎 |
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Jotaro Togami as 今田茂十郎 |
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Omenosuke Ichikawa as 中村千之亟 |
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Noriko Uchibori as お島 |
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Rintarō Fujima as 立花主水 |
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Jinichi Amano as 鳥木伍郎太 |
| Directing | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Director |
| Writing | Moritarō Sasaki | Original Story |
| Writing | Kodō Nomura | Original Story |
| Writing | Masayuki Jo | Original Story |
| Writing | Tatsuro Jinde | Original Story |
| Production | Kōichirō Ogura | Producer |
| Art | Heikichi Kakui | Art Direction |
| Sound | Tadashi Manjome | Music |
| Sound | Goichi Morisawa | Recording Supervision |
| Lighting | 村田政雄 | Lighting Director |
| Production | Tadaoto Kainoshō | Researcher |
| Writing | Masashige Narusawa | Adaptation |
| Writing | Seiji Haji | Original Story |
| Camera | Shintarō Kawasaki | Director of Photography |