Film

Shadow Hunters

1972 · 1h 30m · Action · Adventure · Crime

Sudden Death Comes in Threes!

IMDb

6.3

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

Yūjirō Ishihara

Muroto Jubei

Ruriko Asaoka

Chitose

Ryōhei Uchida

Sunlight

Mikio Narita

Moonlight

Tetsuro Tamba

Shinjirō Ehara

Shōki Fukae

Kimiji Harada

Yūzō Harumi

Michiko Honda

Eiko Horii

Bumon Kahara

Kiyoshi Kamoda

Shunsuke Kariya

Kazuhiko Kasai

Ken'ichi Kikuchi

• Toshio MasudaDirector
• Kaneo IkegamiScreenplay
• Yūjirō IshiharaProducer · Original Music Composer
• Masahiko KobayashiProducer
• Mitsuji KanauDirector of Photography
• Kenjiro HiroseOriginal Music Composer

Release date

June 10, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Action, Adventure, Crime