The Great Duel
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- Runtime
- 118 mins
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
Cast
- Tōru Abe
- Mikijiro Hira
- Yoshio Inaba
- Chiezō Kataoka
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- Nami Munakata
- Kotaro Satomi
- Minoru Ōki
- Shirō Ōsaka
- Hideo Sunazuka
- Rinichi Yamamoto
- Kōshirō Harada
- Yuriko Mishima
- Kayako Sono
- Shunji Kasuga
- Masahiko Naruse
- Kiyoshi Kachi
- Masao Hori
- Kenji Kusumoto
- Hiroshi Kato
- Kazutarō Kuni
- Shinnosuke Ogata
- Harue Yasuki
- Haruhiko Nishi
- Kyōichi Hara
- Kenji Egi
- Masataka Iwao
- Shôtarô Kizuki
- Hajime Nagoya
- Reiichi Hatanaka
- Kunijirō Yanagi
- Ryutaro Otomo
Director
- Eiichi Kudo
