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Blind Monk Swordsman

Blind Monk Swordsman

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 20, 1964

Runtime

1h 26m

Original Title

悪坊主侠客伝

Production Companies

Toei Company

Director

Shumei Onishi

Description

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.