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Secret of Naruto

Secret of Naruto

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 1957

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Drama, Action

User Score

69%

Original Title

鳴門秘帖

Production Companies

Daiei Film

Director

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Description

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.