Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder (1968)
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
Director:
Takashi Harada
Writers:
Eimei Yamamoto, Akira Murao.
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as Shinkai |
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Bunta Sugawara as Ryutatsu |
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Asao Koike as |
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Eitarō Ozawa as |
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Masumi Tachibana as |
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Tōru Abe as |
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Eiko Takehara as |
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Bin Amatsu as |
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Hōsei Komatsu as |
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Akira Shioji as |
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Takashi Ebata as |
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Masumi Harukawa as |
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Hideto Kagawa as |
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Hideko Mikimoto as |
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Takuzō Kawatani as Thug |
| Directing | Takashi Harada | Director |
| Writing | Eimei Yamamoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | Akira Murao | Screenplay |
| Sound | Isao Tomita | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Nagaki Yamagishi | Director of Photography |
