The Lightning Sword (1962)
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.
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as Shinjiro of Misaki |
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Shigeru Amachi as Higashinosuke Yamagata |
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Ryūzō Shimada as Tokusaburō |
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Mieko Kondō as Oyo |
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Eigorō Onoe as Yamagoro |
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Jun'ichirō Narita as Asanosuke |
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Chitose Maki as Orryu |
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Reiko Fujiwara as Kaede / Fumie |
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Yūji Nanto as Takuro |
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Ikuko Mōri as Oharu |
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Toshio Chiba as Tomizo |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as |
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Shōsaku Sugiyama as |
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Teruko Ōmi as |
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Yōko Wakasugi as |
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Gen Kimura as |
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Seishiro Hara as |
| Writing | Minoru Inuzuka | Screenplay |
| Directing | Bin Katō | Director |
| Writing | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Screenplay |
| Editing | Mitsuzō Miyata | Editor |
| Camera | Shozo Honda | Director of Photography |
| Art | Shigeru Katō | Art Direction |
| Sound | Sakae Nagaoka | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Nakaba Takahashi | Original Music Composer |