The Lightning Sword

The Lightning Sword

72 mins | Drama, Crime, Adventure | Dec. 8, 1962

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

The Lightning Sword

72 mins | Drama, Crime, Adventure | Dec. 8, 1962

The Lightning Sword
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
Producers Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Original title 抜打ち鴉
Directors Bin Kato
Writers Teinosuke Kinugasa, Minoru Inuzuka

Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama

as Shinjiro of Misaki

Shigeru Amachi

as Higashinosuke Yamagata

Ryûzô Shimada

as Tokusaburō

Eigorô Onoe

as Yamagoro

Jun'ichirô Narita

as Asanosuke

Chitose Maki

as Orryu

Reiko Fujiwara

as Kaede / Fumie

Yûji Nanto

as Takuro

Ikuko Môri

as Oharu

Toshio Chiba

as Tomizo