Film
Merciless Blade
1953 · 1h 51m · Action · Drama · History
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Overview
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Cast
Kusuo Abe
Shinobu Chihara
Kensaku Hara
Haruyo Ichikawa
Kunio Kaga
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Chiezo Kataoka
Ryûnosuke Tsukue
Gorō Kawabe
Noboru Kiritachi
Akira Kishii
Mitsuko Miura
Kunitaro Sawamura
Eijirō Kataoka
Eitarō Shindō
Kyoji Sugi
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Crew
- Kunio WatanabeScreenplay · Director
- Kaizan NakazatoStory
- Eiichi YamadaOriginal Music Composer
Details
- Release date
- April 23, 1953
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
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