Film

Duel at Gokumon-zaka

1960 · 1h 14m

Sutematsu and Sukekichi, residents of Benten Nagaya tenement, witness a woman being thrown from a palanquin into a river and are immediately attacked by several samurai. They are saved by a fellow tenant, the ronin Ginzaburo Fujizaki. One of the assailants drops a wooden tag bearing the Onitsuta-bishi (demon ivy diamond) crest. The next morning, the woman’s body is found on the lumber dock. She is Omino, daughter of Omiya, a money exchanger in Nihonbashi.

Jūshirō Konoe

Fujizaki Ginzaburo

Kichiya Bando

Choji

Hiromi Hanazono

Orin

A-suke Akita

Sutematsu

B-suke Akita

Sukekichi

Kensaku Hara

Sakakibara Mondo-no-kami

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Niiyama Gendayu

Toshiko Fujita

Shizu

Kenjiro Uemura

Onimoto Kannokuro

Ryūzaburō Nakamura

Todo Takatada

Kinichi Hanabusa

Kanta

Kazuo Tokita

Masakichi

Kinnosuke Fujiki

Hayakawa Minamoto-no-jo

Tetsunosuke Tsukigata

Amemori Kakunoshin

Jotaro Togami

Hagata Genpaku-sai

Eijirō Kataoka

Ihara Shohachi

• Takao AkimotoDirector
• Ryuta AkimotoWriter
• Shoji SugitaDirector of Photography

Release date

September 20, 1960

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 14m