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Plot

One of director Hiroshi Inagaki's rare films set in Japan's medieval period that does not star Toshiro Mifune as a samurai, this engaging costume drama involves a group of bandits instead. The bandits come to a small town to hole up for awhile when the local priest mistakes one of them as a descendent of the town's principle clan, much greater in the past. Taking advantage of their supposed status, the bandits free the captive local ruler from virtual imprisonment in a large castle. They do what they can to help the villagers, but in the end, a rival clan becomes wary of their rising power and decides to jump into action.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
113min.
Distributor(s):
Toho Company Ltd.
Director(s):
Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring:
Yosuke Natsuki , Makoto Sato , Akiko Wakabayashi
Keywords:
anxiety,bad-guy,bad-guy-turns-good,blood,cancer,charade,death,depression,family,gangster,good-guy,mistaken-identity,outlaw [Western],promiscuity,reform [improve],repression,samurai,sex,slaughter,stranger,suicide,terminal-illness,town,village,war