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is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi () in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto.
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7.0A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Genta
- Etsushi Takahashi as Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)
- Yuriko Hoshi as Chino Kajii
- Tadao Nakamaru as Magobei Shôda
- Akira Kubo as Monnosuke Takei
- Shigeru Kōyama as Tamiya Ayuzawa
Themes
- samurai
- based on novel or book
- yakuza
- ronin
- jidaigeki
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 823730
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- publication date
- 1968-06-22
- title
- 斬る
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is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi () in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto.
== Plot == Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza gang member. He meets Hanjirō Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai to escape his powerless existence. Genta and Tabata wind up on opposite sides of clan intrigue when seven members of a local clan assassinate their chancellor. Although the seven, led by Tetsutarō Oikawa (Naoko Kubo) rebelled with the support of their superior, Ayuzawa (Shigeru Kōyama), he turns on them and sends members of the clan to kill them as outlaws.