Sword for Hire (1952)

Original title

戦国無頼

Directed by

Hiroshi Inagaki

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 15m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a ronin in feudal Japan who gets involved in a power struggle between warring clans. He takes on a job as a bodyguard but finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and violence.

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What happens

Sword for Hire (戦国無頼, Sengoku burai) (lit. 'Vagabonds in a Country at War') is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The film is based on a serialized novel by Yasushi Inoue published in the Sunday Mainichi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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