Legend of the Eight Samurai
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- Runtime
- 133 mins
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
Cast
- Hiroko Yakushimaru
- Hiroyuki Sanada
- Sonny Chiba
- Minori Terada
- Masaki Kyomoto
- Etsuko Shihomi
- Takuya Fukuhara
- Shunsuke Kariya
- Kenji Ohba
- Keiko Matsuzaka
- Mari Natsuki
- Yûki Meguro
- Nagare Hagiwara
- Mamako Yoneyama
- Akira Shioji
- Akira Hamada
- Tatsuo Endō
- Seizō Fukumoto
- Mikio Narita
- Masataka Naruse
- Harumi Sone
- Ryôichi Takayanagi
- Taiji Tonoyama
- Nana Okada
- Akihiro Shimizu
- Akio Kobune
- Akira Yamamoto
- Daigaku Sekine
- Emi Uema
- Emiko Maekawa
- Hiroko Suwa
- Jiro Shirai
- Junichi Hosokawa
- Keiko Moriyama
- Kenji Ikeda
- Kenjirou Ishimaru
- Kiyokazu Inoue
- Mai Ooishi
- Makiko Kitashiro
- Masao Hirakawa
- Mayumi Matsumura
- Minken Karasawa
- Mizuho Suzuki
- Naoto Ikeda
- Noboru Maro
- Noriko Kojima
- Rantaro Mine
- Ryuji Komine
- Ryûji Tsubaki
- Seigo Inoue
- Seiichi Ehara
- Shiro Takano
- Shoji Sawada
- Takeshige Hatanaka
- Tetsuo Fujisawa
- Tsuyako Okajima
- Yasuhiro Suzuki
- Yôko Inagaki
- Yôko Miyanagi
- Yukio Miyagi
- Yuko Kada
Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
Producers
- Hiroshi Sugawara
- Haruki Kadokawa
Screenwriter
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Toshio Kamata