Giant Rumble (1964)
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
Director:
Kōsaku Yamashita
Writers:
Norifumi Suzuki, Akira Murao, Sadao Nakajima.
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Hashizo Ōkawa as |
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Tetsuro Tamba as |
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Minoru Hodaka as |
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Chōichirō Kawarasaki as |
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Yukiyo Toake as |
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Wakaba Irie as |
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Tsukie Matsuura as |
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Yoshi Katō as |
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Shin Tokudaiji as |
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Eijirō Kataoka as |
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Kinnosuke Fujiki as |
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Kinya Suzuki as |
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Nobuo Kaneko as |
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Daisuke Awaji as |
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Kojirō Kawanami as |
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Tatsuo Endō as |
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Harumi Sone as |
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Akira Shioji as |
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Mitsukazu Kawamura as |
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Ryōta Minowada as |
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Tokue Hanazawa as |
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Kinnosuke Takamatsu as |
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Kisho Nomura as |
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Yachiyo Kirishima as |
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Kō Nishimura as |
| Writing | Norifumi Suzuki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Akira Murao | Screenplay |
| Writing | Sadao Nakajima | Screenplay |
| Directing | Kōsaku Yamashita | Director |
| Camera | Jūhei Suzuki | Director of Photography |
| Art | Jiro Tomita | Art Direction |
| Lighting | Yoichi Yasuda | Lighting Technician |
| Editing | Shintarō Miyamoto | Editor |
| Sound | Chūji Kinoshita | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kenjirō Tōjō | Sound Recordist |