Sword of the Beast (1965)

Original title

獣の剣

Directed by

Hideo Gosha

Genre

Jidaigeki

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A samurai on the run after killing a clan official gets tangled in a plot to steal gold from the shogun's mine. He meets another desperate samurai with the same goal and their paths collide.

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What happens

Sword of the Beast (獣の剣, Kedamono no ken; also called Samurai Gold Seekers) is a 1965 jidaigeki film co-written and directed by Hideo Gosha. Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai who has killed a counselor in his clan and is on the run. He gets involved in a scheme to poach gold from the shōgun's mountain, where he encounters another samurai who is also there to poach gold. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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