Movie: Eight Views of Samurai

Top 10 Billed Cast

Utaemon Ichikawa
Utaemon Ichikawa

Kotaro Satomi
里見 浩太朗

Yumiko Hasegawa
Yumiko Hasegawa

Keiko Yukishiro
Keiko Yukishiro

Eitarō Shindō
Eitarō Shindō

Takashi Shimura
志村喬

Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki

Shunji Sakai
Shunji Sakai

Susumu Fujita
Susumu Fujita

Kunio Kaga
Kunio Kaga

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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.

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    1958-05-27

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    日本語
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