Film

The Lightning Sword

1962 · 1h 12m · Adventure · Crime · Drama

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Shinjiro of Misaki

Shigeru Amachi

Higashinosuke Yamagata

Ryūzō Shimada

Tokusaburō

Mieko Kondō

Oyo

Eigorō Onoe

Yamagoro

Jun'ichirō Narita

Asanosuke

Chitose Maki

Orryu

Reiko Fujiwara

Kaede / Fumie

Yūji Nanto

Takuro

Ikuko Mōri

Oharu

Toshio Chiba

Tomizo

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Shōsaku Sugiyama

Teruko Ōmi

Yōko Wakasugi

Gen Kimura

• Bin KatōDirector
• Teinosuke KinugasaScreenplay
• Minoru InuzukaScreenplay
• Shozo HondaDirector of Photography
• Nakaba TakahashiOriginal Music Composer
• Mitsuzō MiyataEditor

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Release date

December 8, 1962

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 12m

Genres

Adventure, Crime, Drama