Sword of the Beast

Sword of the Beast

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.

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Top Cast

Mikijiro Hira

As Yuuki Gennosuke

Gō Katō

As Jurata Yamane

Shima Iwashita

As Taka

Kunie Tanaka

As Tanji

Eijirō Tōno

As Minister

Toshie Kimura

As Misa

Kantarō Suga

As Daizaburo

Yōko Mihara

As Osen

Shigeru Amachi

As Vice-Counselor

Torahiko Hamada

As

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