Shadow Hunters (1972)
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
Director:
Toshio Masuda
Writer:
Kaneo Ikegami
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Yūjirō Ishihara as Muroto Jubei |
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Ruriko Asaoka as Chitose |
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Ryōhei Uchida as Sunlight |
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Mikio Narita as Moonlight |
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Tetsuro Tamba as |
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Shinjirō Ehara as |
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Shōki Fukae as |
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Kunji Harada as |
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Yūzō Harumi as |
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Michiko Honda as |
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Eiko Horii as |
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Bumon Kahara as |
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Kiyoshi Kamoda as |
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Shunsuke Kariya as |
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Kazuhiko Kasai as |
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Ken'ichi Kikuchi as |
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Shiro Kuno as |
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Kōjirō Kusanagi as |
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Hisato Okamoto as |
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Takeshi Omaeda as |
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Chico Lourant as |
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Keiko Shirakawa as |
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Isao Tamagawa as |
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Ryūtarō Tatsumi as |
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Eriko Shima as |
| Production | Masahiko Kobayashi | Producer |
| Directing | Toshio Masuda | Director |
| Production | Yūjirō Ishihara | Producer |
| Sound | Kenjiro Hirose | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Masayoshi Kobayashi | Production Design |
| Sound | Yūjirō Ishihara | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Mitsuji Kanau | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Ko Fujibayashi | Lighting Technician |
| Writing | Takao Saito | Original Story |
| Writing | Kaneo Ikegami | Screenplay |