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Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
195910.01h 25m
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.
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Written by Jiro Fujishima, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Rokuhei Susukita
0Top Cast
Kanjūrō Arashi
Ryūzaburō Nakamura
Kinuko Obata
Jūzaburō Akechi
Ureo Egawa
H
Hikosaburo Kataoka
Noriko Kitazawa
Junko Ikeuchi
Takamaru Sasaki
T
Toshio Hosokawa
Themes & Keywords
period drama
About Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger is a action, history film released in 1959 exploring themes of period drama. Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, it stars Kanjūrō Arashi, Ryūzaburō Nakamura, Kinuko Obata. 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.
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