Duel at Gokumon-zaka (1960)
Sutematsu and Sukekichi, residents of Benten Nagaya tenement, witness a woman being thrown from a palanquin into a river and are immediately attacked by several samurai. They are saved by a fellow tenant, the ronin Ginzaburo Fujizaki. One of the assailants drops a wooden tag bearing the Onitsuta-bishi (demon ivy diamond) crest. The next morning, the woman’s body is found on the lumber dock. She is Omino, daughter of Omiya, a money exchanger in Nihonbashi.
Director: Takao Akimoto
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Jūshirō Konoe as Fujizaki Ginzaburo |
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Kichiya Bando as Choji |
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Hiromi Hanazono as Orin |
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A-suke Akita as Sutematsu |
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B-suke Akita as Sukekichi |
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Kensaku Hara as Sakakibara Mondo-no-kami |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as Niiyama Gendayu |
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Toshiko Fujita as Shizu |
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Kenjiro Uemura as Onimoto Kannokuro |
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Ryūzaburō Nakamura as Todo Takatada |
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Kinichi Hanabusa as Kanta |
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Kazuo Tokita as Masakichi |
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Kinnosuke Fujiki as Hayakawa Minamoto-no-jo |
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Tetsunosuke Tsukigata as Amemori Kakunoshin |
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Jotaro Togami as Hagata Genpaku-sai |
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Eijirō Kataoka as Ihara Shohachi |
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Mitsukazu Kawamura as Yamazoe Hachirobei |
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Shinji Oda as Munakata Chikara |
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Kunio Hikita as Isotsuka Hyogo |
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Tamao Murata as Kyozuka |
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Kōtarō Nirei as Gizan |
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Ikuo Oka as Ryonen |
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Yumiko Mihara as Osachi |
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Ikkō Ōkuni as Nagasakiya Jubei |
| Writing | Ryuta Akimoto | Writer |
| Directing | Takao Akimoto | Director |
| Camera | Shoji Sugita | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Saburo Tominaga | Music |
| Art | Kiyoshi Maeda | Art Designer |