The Trail of Blood
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Overview
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 10, 1972
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Ltd.,Tokyo Eiga Co.,Tokyo Eiga
- Cast
- Chikara Hashimoto,Kayo Matsuo,Tokue Hanazawa,Rakoji Nanbara,Hisao Toake,Toru Minegishi,Saho Sasazawa,Shiro Kuno,Kantarō Suga,Takeo Kamuraand 16 more
- Director
- Kazuo Ikehiro
- Producer
- Kikumaru Okuda
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Miyagawa,Yasushi Ichihara
- Music
- Takeo Watanabe
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0202007