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The film from Kurosawa is based on a sacred twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune, with the help of a group of samurai, crossed enemy territory disguised as a monk. The story was dramatized for centuries in Noh and kabuki theater, and here it becomes one of the director's most riveting early films. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Japan
Best movies:
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Secret Scrolls (1957)
Susumu Fujita
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
High and Low (1963)
Masayuki Mori
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Takashi Shimura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
Yasuo Hisamatsu
Japan
Best movies:
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Toward the Terra (1980)
Yoshio Kosugi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)