Ishimatsu: the One-Eyed Avenger

Ishimatsu: the One-Eyed Avenger (1960)

ActionComedy

Some of the finest jidai-geki actors appear in this exciting and entertaining tale of intrigue and action in old Japan. Teaming up the ever-popular Misora Hibari with the greatest samurai action hero of all-time Wakayama Tomisaburo is a brilliant stoke of casting. Hibari takes on the role of Mori no Ishimatsu, a young man who gets involved with real-life Yakuza legend, Shimizu no Jirocho, 'Boss of the Tokaido'. Ishimatsu manages to interfere with a dispute between the Shimizu and their competition, the Marugame family, even going so far as to become an avenger's assistant. It's not the first time Hibari has played a man in a film (also in Benten Kozo), and her acting skills are at their best as she mixes in a bit of humor along with excellent swordplay. Wakayama Tomisaburo, as always, gives an outstanding performance as the powerful and beloved Yakuza Boss Jirocho.

Director: Tadashi Sawashima
Writer: Tadashi Sawashima

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	Hibari Misora as
	Tomisaburō Wakayama as
	Kōtarō Satomi as
	Chie Ueki as
	Kinichi Hanabusa as
	Denjirō Ōkōchi as
	Shunji Sakai as
	Shin Tokudaiji as
	Koinosuke Onoe as
	Kyoji Sugi as
	Yoshio Yoshida as
	Sonosuke Sawamura as
	Kusuo Abe as
	Kunio Kaga as
	Shintaro Takashima as
	Kokichi Nakamura as
	Tetsunosuke Tsukigata as
	Takaaki Furuishi as
	Shinnosuke Ogata as
	Kinnosuke Takamatsu as
	Tokinosuke Nakamura as
	Kenji Nagata as
	Keiko Hama as
	Yoshiko Tsukibue as
	Hideo Shimada as
	Ryuji Kazuki as
	Eijirō Sekine as
	Ichiro Fukui as
	Shinji Oda as
	Hizuru Murasaki as

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