The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords (1964)
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
Director:
Tokuzō Tanaka
Writer:
Hajime Takaiwa
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Shintarō Katsu as Jirocho |
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Yukiko Fuji as Ocho |
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Hiroshi Mizuhara as Take |
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Saburo Date as |
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Taizō Fukami as |
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Ryūtarō Gomi as |
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Hikosaburo Kataoka as |
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Kei Tani as |
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Reizaburo Yamamoto as |
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Yoshio Yoshida as |
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Shirō Ōtsuji as |
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San'emon Arashi as |
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Mitsuyo Asaka as |
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Goro Hidaka as |
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Jushiro Kobayashi as |
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Daimaru Nakata as |
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Raketto Nakata as |
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Shigeru Satoi as |
| Art | Akira Naitō | Art Direction |
| Directing | Tokuzō Tanaka | Director |
| Editing | Hiroshi Yamada | Editor |
| Writing | Hajime Takaiwa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kan Shimozawa | Original Story |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |
