Blind Monk Swordsman (1964)
Original title: 悪坊主侠客伝
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.
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Jūshirō Konoe
Chiyonosuke Azuma
Haruo Tanaka
Shinobu Chihara
Masao Mishima
Kikuko Hojo
Sonosuke Sawamura
Eijirō Kataoka
Kusuo AbeHiroshi FujikawaMitsuru TakeuchiRyuko AzumaKeywords
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What is Blind Monk Swordsman about?
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.
How long is Blind Monk Swordsman?
Blind Monk Swordsman has a runtime of 86 minutes.