Kill! (1968)

Original title

斬る

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Genre

drama film, Jidaigeki

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two ronin get caught up in a messy plot involving a corrupt clan and a hidden stash of gold. The story mixes dark humor with violent sword fights.

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What happens

Kill! (Japanese: 斬る, Hepburn: Kiru) is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi (lit. '17 Days at Fort Mountain') in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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