Kill!

Kill!

114 mins | Comedy, Action | June 22, 1968

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

Kill!

114 mins | Comedy, Action | June 22, 1968

Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 斬る
Directors Kihachi Okamoto
Writers Akira Murao, Kihachi Okamoto, Shûgorô Yamamoto

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Genta

Etsushi Takahashi

as Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)

Yuriko Hoshi

as Chino Kajii

Tadao Nakamaru

as Magobei Shôda

Akira Kubo

as Monnosuke Takei

Shigeru Kôyama

as Tamiya Ayuzawa

Eijirō Tōno

as Hyogo Moriuchi

Shin Kishida

as Jurota Arao

Atsuo Nakamura

as Tetsutaro

Nami Tamura

as Yô

Hideyo Amamoto

as Gendayu Shimada

Yoshio Tsuchiya

as Shinroku Matsuo

Isao Hashimoto

as Kônosuke Fujii

Akira Hamada

as Denzô Nishimura

Takeo Chii

as Yaheiji Yoshida

Seishirô Kuno

as Daijirô Masataka

Ben Hiura

as Busuke

Susumu Kurobe

as Kinsaburo Ayuzawa

Masao Imafuku

as Doshin - Monk

Hiroshi Hasegawa

as Injured Ronin

Emiko Suzuki

as Tomi

Yasuzō Ogawa

as Kisuke

Yutaka Nakayama

as Ronin

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Sachu Mizoguchi

Shin Ibuki

as Injured Ronin

Chōtarō Tōgin

as Ronin

Wataru Ômae

as Guard

Haruo Suzuki

as Banto

Yû Sekita

as Ayzawa's vassal