Bibliograph

Sword of the beast, Kedamono no ken, Shochiku Pictures ; a Shochiku-Haiyuza coproduction ; screenplay by Hideo Gosha and Eizaburo Shiba ; directed by Hideo Gosha

Type

Label

Sword of the beast, Kedamono no ken, Shochiku Pictures ; a Shochiku-Haiyuza coproduction ; screenplay by Hideo Gosha and Eizaburo Shiba ; directed by Hideo Gosha

Language

jpn

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Sword of the beast

Oclc number

62231055

Responsibility statement

Shochiku Pictures ; a Shochiku-Haiyuza coproduction ; screenplay by Hideo Gosha and Eizaburo Shiba ; directed by Hideo Gosha

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 311

Sub title

Kedamono no ken

Summary

"Chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun's gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor"--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Kemono no kenSamurai gold seekersKedamono no ken

Classification