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.
Cast
Mikijiro Hira
Yuuki Gennosuke
Gō Katō
Jurata Yamane
Shima Iwashita
Taka
Kunie Tanaka
Tanji
Eijirō Tōno
Minister
Toshie Kimura
Misa
Kantarō Suga
Daizaburo
Yōko Mihara
Osen
Shigeru Amachi
Vice-Counselor
Torahiko Hamada
Unknown
Hajime Araki
Unknown
Tsuyoshi Date
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Tôru Hatozaki
Unknown
Takeshi Katō
Katori
Mikio Maejima
Unknown
Kappei Matsumoto
Unknown
Hajime Miyazawa
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Kôtarô Mori
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Yasushi Nagata
Unknown
Katsue Nitta
Unknown
Jun Ooi
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Kyōichi Satō
Unknown
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Unknown
Kôji Tsutsui
Unknown
Noboru Umezawa
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Kiyoshi Yamamoto
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Sen Yano
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Hisashi Yokomori
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