Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s SWORD OF THE BEAST chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Starring Mikijirô Hira, Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kunie Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Toshie Kimura, Kantarô Suga, Yōko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi, Torahiko Hamada
Watch "Sword of the Beast" on Criterion Channel released in 1965. It's a action and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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