Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
1959
85 minutes
Overview
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
Top Cast
Kanjūrō Arashi
Ryūzaburō Nakamura
Kinuko Obata
Jūzaburō Akechi
Ureo Egawa
Hikosaburo Kataoka
Noriko Kitazawa
Junko Ikeuchi
Takamaru Sasaki
Toshio Hosokawa
Jushiro Kobayashi
Gen Funabashi
Teruo Wakatsuki
Arata Shibata
Ichiro Namiki
Kōtarō Sugie
Jotaro Yuki
Tomohiko Ôtani
Kōji Hirose
Kan Sugi
Junko Uozumi
Kōtarō Bandō
Tadao Takashima