Movie: The Trail of Blood

Top 10 Billed Cast

Yoshio Harada
原田芳雄

Jokichi

Katsuo Nakamura
中村嘉葎雄

Toru Minegishi
峰岸徹

Etsuko Ichihara
市原悦子

Kôji Nanbara
南原宏治

Kayo Matsuo
松尾嘉代

Sanae Kitabayashi
北林早苗

Maki Mizuhara
Maki Mizuhara

Kaoru Kusuda
楠田薫

Ryoko Nakano
中野良子

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    Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

  • Release Date

    1972-06-10

  • Average

    6.3

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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