The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

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• 1964-09-17
• 86 minutes mins

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

Starring:

Shintarō Katsu (Jirocho) Yukiko Fuji (Ocho) Hiroshi Mizuhara (Take) Saburo Date () Taizō Fukami () Ryūtarō Gomi () Hikosaburo Kataoka () Kei Tani () Reizaburo Yamamoto () Yoshio Yoshida ()

Director:

Tokuzō Tanaka

Writer:

Hajime Takaiwa