The read
It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
TMDB10/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Nobuo NakagawaDirector
- Jiro FujishimaScreenplay
- Yoshihiro IshikawaScreenplay
- Rokurō HaraOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kanjūrō ArashiCast
- Ryūzaburō NakamuraCast
- Kinuko ObataCast
- Jūzaburō AkechiCast
- Ureo EgawaCast
- Hikosaburo KataokaCast
- Noriko KitazawaCast
- Junko IkeuchiCast
- Takamaru SasakiCast
- Toshio HosokawaCast
- Jushiro KobayashiCast
- Gen FunabashiCast
Stills
Themes
period drama