Eight Views of Samurai (1958)
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.
Director:
Tai Katō
Writer:
Hyōgo Suzuki
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Utaemon Ichikawa as |
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Kōtarō Satomi as |
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Yumiko Hasegawa as |
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Keiko Yukishiro as |
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Eitarō Shindō as |
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Takashi Shimura as |
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Minoru Chiaki as |
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Shunji Sakai as |
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Susumu Fujita as |
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Kunio Kaga as |
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Kusuo Abe as |
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Jun Usami as |
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Chinami Katsuura as |
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Kazuo Ishii as |
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Shin Tokudaiji as |
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Junko Takashima as |
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Akiko Kazami as |
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Eriko Yoshida as |
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Ririko Nishitsuji as |
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Kunijirō Yanagi as |
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Eijirō Sekine as |
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Ryūtarō Aoyagi as |
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Fumio Nakano as |
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Hachiro Yamauchi as |
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Momonosuke Ichikawa as |
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Yujiro Omi as |
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Hideo Shimada as |
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Junpei Arishima as |
| Lighting | Hideichi Yamane | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Eiichi Yamada | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Takeo Itō | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Taizo Takeyama | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Takatoshi Suzuki | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tadaoto Kainoshō | Costume Design |
| Writing | Kiichirō Yamate | Novel |
| Editing | Shintarō Miyamoto | Editor |
| Writing | Hyōgo Suzuki | Screenplay |
| Directing | Tai Katō | Director |