斬る (1968)

Action Comedy

In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, Kill! playfully tweaks samurai film convention, borrowing elements from established chanbara classics and seasoning them with a little Italian western.

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Runtime: 114 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Akira Kubo

Tetsuo Teri

Shigeru Kôyama

Nakayama

Yuriko Hoshi

Naoko Shindo

Tatsuya Nakadai

Sakuma

Etsushi Takahashi

Jun Tsuji

Shin Kishida

Interpol Agent Nanbara

Tadao Nakamaru

1st. Lt. Yamamoto

Eijirō Tōno

Hayashida

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Crew

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Producer

Masaru Satô

Original Music Composer

Shûgorô Yamamoto

Novel

Kihachi Okamoto

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Screenplay

Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Editor

Akira Murao

Screenplay

Rokurô Nishigaki

Cinematography

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