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Merciless Blade

19530.0 / 10111 min
Action, Drama, History

Overview

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Cast

Kusuo Abe

Kusuo Abe

Shinobu Chihara

Shinobu Chihara

Kensaku Hara

Kensaku Hara

Haruyo Ichikawa

Haruyo Ichikawa

Kunio Kaga

Kunio Kaga

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Chiezō Kataoka

Chiezō Kataoka

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Gorō Kawabe

Gorō Kawabe

Noboru Kiritachi

Noboru Kiritachi

Akira Kishii

Akira Kishii

Mitsuko Miura

Mitsuko Miura

Kunitaro Sawamura

Kunitaro Sawamura

Eijirō Kataoka

Eijirō Kataoka

Eitarō Shindō

Eitarō Shindō

Kyoji Sugi

Kyoji Sugi

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Ko Yamamuro

Ko Yamamuro

Crew

Kunio Watanabe

Kunio Watanabe

Screenplay

Kunio Watanabe

Kunio Watanabe

Director

Kaizan Nakazato

Kaizan Nakazato

Story

Kenji Tanaka

Kenji Tanaka

Lighting Technician

Heikichi Kakui

Heikichi Kakui

Art Direction

Takashi Watanabe

Takashi Watanabe

Cinematography

Kenjirō Tōjō

Kenjirō Tōjō

Sound

Eiichi Yamada

Eiichi Yamada

Original Music Composer