The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Director:
Umetsugu Inoue
Writer:
Seiji Hoshikawa
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Raizō Ichikawa as Kyonosuke Ninomiya / Yasutaka Ikemoto |
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Hizuru Takachiho as Teruhime |
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Masayo Banri as Kohagi |
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Katsuhiko Kobayashi as |
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Shigeru Amachi as Sadamitsu Miki |
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Ryūzō Shimada as |
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Tatsuya Ishiguro as |
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Rieko Sumi as |
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Nobuo Kaneko as |
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Saburo Date as |
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Manabu Morita as |
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Shinjirō Asano as |
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Yūji Hamada as |
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Shintarō Nanjō as |
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Shōzō Nanbu as |
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Shinobu Araki as |
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Eigorō Onoe as |
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Kuniichi Takami as |
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Kiyoshi Nakano as |
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Jun Fuwa as |
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Yukio Horikita as |
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Jun Fujikawa as |
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Akiko Inoue as |
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Gen Kimura as |
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Masayoshi Kikuno as |
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Akira Shiga as |
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Kazuo Ōbayashi as |
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Kanji Uehara as |
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Taizô Sengoku as |
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Noboru Taniguchi as |
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Takayuki Akutagawa as Narrator (voice) |
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Hiroyuki Mori as |
| Directing | Umetsugu Inoue | Director |
| Writing | Norio Nanjō | Original Story |
| Sound | Hajime Kaburagi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Shozo Honda | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Iwao Ōtani | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Mitsuzō Miyata | Editor |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Directing | Eiji Nishizawa | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Seiji Hoshikawa | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Ken'ichi Okamoto | Gaffer |