Synopsis: A man of honor struggles to regain his good name after being exiled to the wrong side of the law in this period drama from Japan. Gennosuke (Mikijiro Hira) was a loyal swordsman hoping to gain a position of power in his clan when he killed a man on orders of one of his superiors. After committing the foul deed, Gennosuke discovers he's been betrayed by his masters; bitter and disillusioned, Gennosuke becomes a ronin, a samurai without a ruler, and pledges to wander the Earth like an animal. While on the run from his former associates, Gennosuke falls in with a band of outlaws who are poaching gold that belongs to the shogun. Among the criminals, Gennosuke discovers a man who may be able to restore him to a position of respect, but the ronin discovers the man is not to be trusted, a situation that becomes all the more complicated when he becomes infatuated with his wife. Sword of the Beast (aka Kedamono no ken) was the second feature film from Hideo Gosha, who went on to become one of Japan's leading directors of samurai cinema.
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Hideo Gosha is one of Japan's finest jidaigeki directors and with his second feature, Sword of the Beast, he firmly set a course for what are considered two of the genre's best, Tenchu and Goyokin. Although not the greatest or splashiest samurai film around, it's well conceived and crafted with the measured assurance of an early John Ford Western that portends even greater things to come. -- Mark Pollard |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200768/IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (502 votes)
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast:
Mikijiro Hira .... Yuuki Gennosuke
Go Kato .... Jurata Yamane
Shima Iwashita .... Taka
Toshie Kimura .... Misa
Kantarô Suga .... Daizaburo
Yôko Mihara .... Osen
Kunie Tanaka .... Tanji
Eijirô Tôno .... Minister
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Title: Kedamono no ken (1965)
AKA Sword of the Beast
Source: DVD / R1, NTSC / Criterion
Size: 1.173.067.774 bytes (1/4 DVDR)
Runtime: 01:25:26
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1192)
Video Bitrate: 1636 kbps
Resolution: 692x352 (Anamorphic, displayed at 2.38 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 2.38 (SAR: 40/33)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (1 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: Japanese
Subtitles (muxed in): SRT: English, Spanish
SA: HP @ Level 4.1
Notes: Spanish subs by caos_total / AllZine.org |
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