Gyakuryu (1924)

192428mdir. Buntarō FutagawaJapaneseJapandrama filmsilent film

With Tsumasaburō Bandō, Tomoko Makino

Directed by Buntarō Futagawa

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Gyakuryu (逆流, Backward Flow) is a 1924 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Buntaro Futagawa. Often acclaimed as the predecessor to Orochi, it tells the tale of a nihilistic samurai, played by Tsumasaburo Bando whose mother is killed, whose sister is used and deceived and who loses the only love of his life.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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