Movie: Eight Views of Samurai

Top 10 Billed Cast

Utaemon Ichikawa
市川右太衛門

Kōtarō Satomi
里見浩太朗

Yumiko Hasegawa
長谷川裕見子

Keiko Yukishiro
雪代敬子

Eitarō Shindō
進藤英太郎

Takashi Shimura
志村喬

Minoru Chiaki
千秋実

Shunji Sakai
堺駿二

Susumu Fujita
藤田進

Kunio Kaga
加賀邦男

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    Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.

  • Release Date

    1958-05-27

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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