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Cast

Kanjūrō Arashi

Kanjūrō Arashi

Ryūzaburō Nakamura

Ryūzaburō Nakamura

Kinuko Obata

Kinuko Obata

Jūzaburō Akechi

Jūzaburō Akechi

Ureo Egawa

Ureo Egawa

Hikosaburo Kataoka

Hikosaburo Kataoka

Noriko Kitazawa

Noriko Kitazawa

Junko Ikeuchi

Junko Ikeuchi

Takamaru Sasaki

Takamaru Sasaki

Toshio Hosokawa

Toshio Hosokawa

Jushiro Kobayashi

Jushiro Kobayashi

Gen Funabashi

Gen Funabashi

Teruo Wakatsuki

Teruo Wakatsuki

Arata Shibata

Arata Shibata

Ichiro Namiki

Ichiro Namiki

Kōtarō Sugie

Kōtarō Sugie

Jotaro Yuki

Jotaro Yuki

Tomohiko Ôtani

Tomohiko Ôtani

Kōji Hirose

Kōji Hirose

Kan Sugi

Kan Sugi

Junko Uozumi

Junko Uozumi

Kōtarō Bandō

Kōtarō Bandō

Tadao Takashima

Tadao Takashima

Eiji Wakasugi

Eiji Wakasugi

Crew

Mitsugi Okura

Mitsugi Okura

Executive Producer

Nobuo Nakagawa

Nobuo Nakagawa

Director

Rokuhei Susukita

Rokuhei Susukita

Original Story

Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Screenplay

Jiro Fujishima

Jiro Fujishima

Screenplay

Tadashi Nishimoto

Tadashi Nishimoto

Director of Photography

Shigeo Orimo

Shigeo Orimo

Lighting Technician

Haruo Numata

Haruo Numata

Sound Recordist

Keiji Miyazawa

Keiji Miyazawa

Art Direction

Rokurō Hara

Rokurō Hara

Original Music Composer

Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Assistant Director

Shin Nagata

Shin Nagata

Editor

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The Shadow Avenger

195910.0 / 1085 min
Action, History

Overview

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.