Movie: Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Top 10 Billed Cast

Chiezō Kataoka
片岡千恵蔵

Genpachi

Daisuke Katō
加東大介

Genta

Eijirō Kataoka
片岡栄二郎

Sakawa Kojūrō

Motoharu Ueki
植木基晴

Jirō

Chie Ueki
植木千恵

Okin, the Shamisen Player's Daughter

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
月形龍之介

Tōzaburō

Chizuru Kitagawa
喜多川千鶴

Shamisen Player

Yuriko Tashiro
田代百合子

Otane

Eitarō Shindō
進藤英太郎

Pilgrim

Toranosuke Ogawa
小川虎之助

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    Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.

  • Release Date

    1955-02-27

  • Average

    7.4

  • Rating:

    3.7 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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