He whips out his sword and relieves his victims of their heads!!
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.
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Character
Unpretentious, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Tomisaburō WakayamaOgami Itto
- Akihiro TomikawaDaigoro Ogami
- Kayo MatsuoSupreme Ninja
- Minoru ŌkiMaster of Death
- Shin KishidaMaster of Death
- Shogen NittaMaster of Death
- Reiko KasaharaAzami
- Akiji KobayashiLord Kurogawa
- Taketoshi NaitōLord Bizen
- Tokio OkiThe Shogun
Crew
- Robert HoustonDirector
- Kenji MisumiDirector
- Kazuo KoikeScreenplay
- Robert HoustonScreenplay
- David WeismanWriter
- W. Michael LewisOriginal Music Composer
- Kunihiko MuraiOriginal Music Composer
- Mark LindsayOriginal Music Composer
- Lee PercyEditor
- Toshio TaniguchiEditor
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