The Great Duel

The Great Duel

1964/09/05 • Released • Japanese

6.0
1h 34m

Overview

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!

Director : Kōsaku Yamashita

Casts
Hashizo Okawa

Hashizo Okawa

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Minoru Hodaka

Minoru Hodaka

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Yukiyo Toake

Yukiyo Toake

Wakaba Irie

Wakaba Irie

Tsukie Matsuura

Yoshi Katō

Yoshi Katō

Shin Tokudaiji

Shin Tokudaiji

Eijirō Kataoka

Eijirō Kataoka

Kin'nosuke Fujiki

Kin'ya Suzuki

Nobuo Kaneko

Nobuo Kaneko

Daisuke Awaji

Daisuke Awaji

Kojirō Kawanami

Tatsuo Endō

Tatsuo Endō

Harumi Sone

Harumi Sone

Akira Shioji

Akira Shioji

Mitsukazu Kawamura

Ryōta Minowada

Tokue Hanazawa

Tokue Hanazawa

Kinnosuke Takamatsu

Kisho Nomura

Yachiyo Kirishima

Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura

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