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Shinken shôbu

Shinken shôbu

1971Movie⏱️ 1h 15mNot Rated
ActionDrama
6.7
IMDB Rating
118 votes

In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot be taken lightly, the man's wife who is out for...

Director
Tomu Uchida
Writers
Daisuke Itô, Eiji Yoshikawa
Stars
Kinnosuke Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Teruo Matsuyama
Release Date
February 20, 1971
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🏆 1
Wins
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

👤
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Musashi Miyamoto
Rentarô Mikuni
Rentarô Mikuni
as Baiken Shishido
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Teruo Matsuyama
👤
Hideko Okiyama
as Omaki, Baiken's wife
👤
Hiroshi Tanaka
👤
Kôji Iwamoto

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Mono
Production
Toho

🏷️ Keywords

swordswordsmanchainchain and sicklewanderer

🎯 Categories

JapaneseActionDrama

⭐ Featured Review

SWORDS OF DEATH (Tomu Uchida, 1971) **1/2
by Bunuel19762009-01-10
6/10

"Jarring, intermittent use of freeze frames accompanied by voice-over narration and some poorly-synched sound effects might well be tell-tale signs that this film was still incomplete when its director passed away in mid-1970. Similar to my previous encounter with Uchida's cinema – the superior A BLOODY SPEAR ON MOUNT FUJI (1955) – this film has a very deliberately paced (and, in this case, muddled) first half as it tells of the exploits of legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto (played 16 years earlier by the great Toshiro Mifune in a celebrated trilogy of films for director Hiroshi Inakagi a..."

📖 Synopsis

In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot be taken lightly, the man's wife who is out for...