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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   459 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Hideo Gosha (writer)
Kei Tasaka (writer)
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Release Date:
6 September 1971 (Sweden) more
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Plot:
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Reviews:
way, way more than "decent" more (16 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Tatsuya Nakadai ... Magobei Wakizaka
Kinnosuke Nakamura ... Samon Fujimaki
Tetsurô Tanba ... Rokugo Tatewaki
Yôko Tsukasa ... Shino
Ruriko Asaoka ... Oriha
Isao Natsuyagi ... Kunai
Ben Hiura ... Rokuzo
Kô Nishimura
Shinnosuke Ogata ... Miyauchi Hanzo
Shingo Osawa ... Kishima Genai
Tsuyoshi Haraguchi ... Ishikawa Kurodo
Kyôichi Satô ... Arai Dokan
Hisashi Igawa ... Takeuchi Shinjiro
Susumu Kurobe ... Omura Sobee
Kenjiro Hoshino ... Okajima Yahachi
Hajime Araki ... Hirayama Yosuke
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi ... Ichihara Matashichi
Kunie Tanaka ... Hirosuke
Tsuyoshi Date ... Kurosawa Gendayu
Kujiro Tanaka ... Nagai Heisuke
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eijirô Tôno ... (uncredited)
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Directed by
Hideo Gosha 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Hideo Gosha  writer
Kei Tasaka  writer

Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto .... executive producer
Hideo Fukuda .... executive producer
Masayuki Satô .... executive producer
Hideyuki Shiino .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Masaru Satô 
 
Cinematography by
Kôzô Okazaki 
 
Film Editing by
Michio Suwa 
 
Production Design by
Motoji Kojima 
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Official Gold
Steel Edge of Revenge
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Runtime:
124 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This is the first Japanese feature film in Panavision. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as The Master Gunfighter (1975) more

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4 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
way, way more than "decent", 10 September 2005
9/10
Author: eigaguy from Los Angeles

I just had to write something when I saw that the current spotlighted user's comment calls this movie merely "decent." I just got back from seeing it on the big screen, and believe me, it's WAY more than "decent." More like amazing. I am truly grateful to have had the opportunity to see it. I'll be the first to admit that it's at times narratively challenging, and that the main character is fairly one-note. But it really compares in many respects with classic westerns like The Searchers. Plus a truly inventive, exciting, and striking climax. Full of visual poetry. Ten lines really does seem like a bit much to require people to write. Would six be so awful? All I really wanted to do was provide some balance to the "decent" comment. Wow. I'm still just at nine lines. Okay. See this on the big screen if you have a chance. It's truly a widescreen picture that uses the frame quite inventively at times. And that's eleven lines, so I'm done.

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