Shadow Hunters

Shadow Hunters

90 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure | June 10, 1972

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

Shadow Hunters

90 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure | June 10, 1972

Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Ishihara Productions
Original title 影狩り
Directors Toshio Masuda
Writers Takao Saito, Kaneo Ikegami

Cast

Yûjirô Ishihara

as Muroto Jubei

Ruriko Asaoka

as Chitose

Ryôhei Uchida

as Sunlight

Mikio Narita

as Moonlight