The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords (1964)


  • Genre: Crime, History
  • Release Date: 1964-09-17
  • Runtime: 1h 26min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Daiei Film
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Tokuzō Tanaka

Summary

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

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  • Shintarō Katsu

    as Jirocho
  • Yukiko Fuji

    as Ocho
  • Hiroshi Mizuhara

    as Take
  • Saburo Date

    as
  • Taizō Fukami

    as
  • Ryūtarō Gomi

    as
  • Hikosaburo Kataoka

    as
  • Kei Tani

    as
  • Reizaburo Yamamoto

    as
  • Yoshio Yoshida

    as
  • Shirō Ōtsuji

    as
  • San'emon Arashi

    as
  • Mitsuyo Asaka

    as
  • Goro Hidaka

    as
  • Jushiro Kobayashi

    as
  • Daimaru Nakata

    as
  • Raketto Nakata

    as
  • Shigeru Satoi

    as
Art Akira Naitô Art Direction
Crew Kazuo Miyagawa Cinematography
Directing Tokuzō Tanaka Director
Writing Kan Shimozawa Original Story
Editing Hiroshi Yamada Editor
Sound Akira Ifukube Music
Writing Hajime Takaiwa Screenplay

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