The Lightning Sword
抜打ち鴉
Release: 1962-12-08
·Runtime: 72m
·★ 8.0
Adventure
Crime
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Daiei Film
Cast
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
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Teruko Ōmi
Gen Kimura
