Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger (1959)
Synopsis
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
Release Date: 1959-04-29
Runtime: 85 minutes
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Top Cast
- Kanjūrō Arashi as
- Ryūzaburō Nakamura as
- Kinuko Obata as
- Jūzaburō Akechi as
- Ureo Egawa as
- Hikosaburo Kataoka as
- Noriko Kitazawa as
- Junko Ikeuchi as
- Takamaru Sasaki as
- Toshio Hosokawa as
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