The Lightning Sword
1962 · ★ 8 · Dir. Bin Kato
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.
- Released
- 1962-12-08
- Runtime
- 72 min
- Language
- JA
- IMDb
- View ↗
Media
Top billed cast
Full cast & crew →
Tomisaburô Wakayama
Shinjiro of Misaki
Shigeru Amachi
Higashinosuke Yamagata
Ryûzô Shimada
Tokusaburō
Mieko Kondō
Oyo
Mieko Kondō
Oyo
Eigorô Onoe
Yamagoro
Jun'ichirō Narita
Asanosuke
Chitose Maki
Orryu
Reiko Fujiwara
Kaede / Fumie
Yûji Nanto
Takuro
Ikuko Mōri
Oharu
Ryōsuke Kagawa
