The Third Shadow Warrior
Despite its setting in 1567 Japan, Umetsugu Inoue's 1963 drama THE THIRD SHADOW WARRIOR (aka The Third Shadow, aka Daisan no Kagemusha) seemed to have a lot to say about twentieth century Japan -- derived from a novel by leftist author Norio Nanjo, its story of a peasant who ascends to the nobility, only to be destroyed in the process, is a harsh criticism of social caste systems and their toll on the people trapped within them
Starring Raizō Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Amachi, Ryûzô Shimada, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Rieko Sumi, Nobuo Kaneko, Saburo Date
Watch "The Third Shadow Warrior" on Criterion Channel released in 1963. It's a action & adventure 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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