Vengeance for Sale (2002)

Original title

助太刀屋助六

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Genre

Jidaigeki

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A yakuza named Sukeroku works as a hired sword, helping other people carry out their revenge plots. This is a jidaigeki set in historical Japan and based on a manga from the 1960s.

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What happens

Vengeance for Sale (Japanese: 助太刀屋助六, Hepburn: Sukedachiya Sukeroku) is a 2002 Japanese jidaigeki film written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Vengeance for Sale is a remake of the TV movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto in 1969, based on the manga written by Okamoto under the pen name "Daisuke Ikuta". It was the final film Okamoto directed. Vengeance for Sale was adapted into a kabuki in 2012. Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Sukeroku, a yakuza who makes a living by aiding someone else's revenge. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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