The Lightning Sword

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 8, 1962

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama,Shigeru Amachi,Ryūzō Shimada,Mieko Kondō,Eigorō Onoe,Jun'ichirō Narita,Chitose Maki,Reiko Fujiwara,Yūji Nanto,Ikuko Mōriand 26 more

Director

Bin Katō

Writer

Teinosuke Kinugasa,Minoru Inuzuka

Producer

Tomio Takamori

Cinematography

Shozo Honda

Music

Nakaba Takahashi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt12214478