Incident at Blood Pass
待ち伏せ
Release: 1970-04-21
·Runtime: 118m
·★ 6.9
Action
Drama
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Mifune Productions
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
as Yojimbo
Yūjirō Ishihara
as Yataro
Ruriko Asaoka
as Okuni
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Heima Ibuki
Yutaka Sada
Jotaro Togami
as Gonji
Hiroshi Tanaka
Shinsuke Achiwa
Chūsha Ichikawa
as Unknown Samurai
Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Itahachi
Yaozô Ichikawa
Shintarō Katsu
as Gentetsu
Ichirō Arishima
as Tokubei
Chieko Nakakita
