Suzunosuke Akado (1957)

Original title

赤胴鈴之助

Directed by

Bin Katō

Genre

fantasy, action, history

Country

Japan

Runtime

58 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young samurai named Suzunosuke uses his sword skills to fight evil. This film is the first in a series based on a manga.

whimsicallight-heartedaction-packednostalgicswashbucklingfantasticalfast-pacedadventurous

What happens

Suzunosuke Akado (Japanese: 赤胴鈴之助, Hepburn: Akadō Suzunosuke) is a 1957 Japanese tokusatsu fantasy drama film directed by Bin Kato and produced by Kazuyoshi Takeda, and is the first of the nine-film series based on the manga Akado Suzunosuke. IMDb credits Shoji Umewaka as "Masaji Umeiwa" the main star of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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