The Lightning Sword

The Lightning Sword (1962)

AdventureCrimeDrama

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

Director: Bin Katō
Writers: Minoru Inuzuka, Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Casts

	Tomisaburō Wakayama as Shinjiro of Misaki
	Shigeru Amachi as Higashinosuke Yamagata
	Ryūzō Shimada as Tokusaburō
	Mieko Kondō as Oyo
	Eigorō Onoe as Yamagoro
	Jun'ichirō Narita as Asanosuke
	Chitose Maki as Orryu
	Reiko Fujiwara as Kaede / Fumie
	Yūji Nanto as Takuro
	Ikuko Mōri as Oharu
	Toshio Chiba as Tomizo
	Ryōsuke Kagawa as
	Shōsaku Sugiyama as
	Teruko Ōmi as
	Yōko Wakasugi as
	Gen Kimura as
	Seishiro Hara as
	宇野正晃 as
	Seishiro Hara as Kume
	Yukio Horikita as
	Yûshi Hamada as
	Sumao Ishihara as
	Ichirō Amano as
	Jun Fujikawa as
	Tokio Oki as
	Masayoshi Kikuno as
	Hajime Koshikawa as
	Ryo Konakajima as
	Toshihiko Takeya as
	Taizô Sengoku as
	Noboru Taniguchi as
	Kanae Kobayashi as
	Keiko Koyanagi as
	Noboru Taki as
	Takako Ōtani as
	Kazuko Taniguchi as
	Yayoi Satomi as

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