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.
Cast
| Gennosuke Yuki | Mikijiro Hira |
| Jurota Yamane | Go Kato |
| Taka | Shima Iwashita |
| Counselor of Jurota’s clan | Eijiro Tono |
| Vice-counselor of Gennosuke’s clan | Shigeru Amachi |
| Tanji | Kunie Tanaka |
| Misa | Toshie Kimura |
| Daizaburo | Kantaro Suga |
| Gundayu | Takeshi Kato |
| Osen | Yoko Mihara |
Credits
| Director | Hideo Gosha |
| Screenplay | Hideo Gosha and Eizaburo Shiba |
| Cinematography | Toshitada Tsuchiya |
| Art direction | Mamoru Abe |
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